Intestinal parasites

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 857-877

  Jong, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTICESTODAL AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BITHIONOL; CHLOROQUINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEHYDROEMETINE; DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; FUMAGILLIN; FURAZOLIDONE; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; MEPACRINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NICLOSAMIDE; NITAZOXANIDE; OXAMNIQUINE; PAROMOMYCIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRANTEL EMBONATE; TETRACYCLINE; TIABENDAZOLE; TINIDAZOLE; TRICLABENDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ASCARIASIS; CESTODIASIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAENIASIS; TRAVEL; TREMATODIASIS; WORM INFECTION;

ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TRAVEL;

EID: 0036952677     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00047-7     Document Type: Review

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