Onchocerciasis presenting with lower extremity, hypopigmented macules

Cutis

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 293-297

  Vernick, William ^a   Turner, Stacey E ^b   Burov, Ellen ^c   Telang, Gladys H ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; IVERMECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEG; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IVERMECTIN; LEG; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC;

EID: 0034184897     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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