Socioeconomic status, clinical features, laboratory and parasitological findings of hepatic amebiasis patients - A hospital based prospective study in Bangladesh

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 399-404

  Shamsuzzaman, S M ^a,b   Haque, Rashidul ^c   Ruhul Hasin, S K ^d   Petri Jr , William A ^e   Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa ^b  

^a DHAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Bangladesh)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0034198204     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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