African sleeping sickness in a young American tourist

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 783-788

  Conway Klaassen, Janice M ^a   Wyrick Glatzel, Janis M ^a   Neyrinck, Noreen ^b   Belair, Patricia A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b St Rose Dominican Hospitals   (United States)

^c American Medical Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; EFLORNITHINE; FIBRINOGEN; MELARSOPROL; PENTAMIDINE; SURAMIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY; UNITED STATES;

GLOSSINA (PROPER); TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0036826250     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/HM97-61FB-DE7H-5VGQ     Document Type: Article

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