Strongyloides stercoralis infection as a cause of acute granulomatous appendicitis in an HIV-positive patient in Athens, Greece

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 856-857

  Felekouras, Evangelos ^a   Kontos, Michail ^a   Kyriakou, Vassiliki ^a   Hatzianagnostou, Dimitris ^a   Dimaroggona, Kyriaki ^a   Papalampros, Efstathios ^a   Kordossis, Theodore ^a   Bastounis, Elias ^a  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; APPENDICITIS; GREECE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0036970957     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0036554021000026943     Document Type: Article

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