Three patients with african sleeping sickness following a visit to Tanzania;Drie patiënten met afrikaanse slaapziekte na een bezoek aan Tanzania

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 146, Issue 52, 2002, Pages 2552-2556

  Mendonca Melo M ^a,b   Rasica, M ^a,b   Van Thiel, P P A M ^a,c   Richter, C ^a   Kager, P A ^a,c   Wismans, P J ^a,b  

^a Havenziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELARSOPROL;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL AFRICA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COMA; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL PARK; NETHERLANDS; RELAPSE; TANZANIA; TOURISM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELARSOPROL; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RECURRENCE; TANZANIA; TRAVEL; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 0037192063     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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