Aping Jane Goodall: Insights into human lymphatic filariasis

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 105-109

  Ravindran, Balachandran ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELEPHANTIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS;

FILARIA;

EID: 0037339221     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(03)00004-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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