European echinococcosis registry: Human alveolar echinococcosis, Europe, 1982-2000

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-349

  Kern, Petra ^a,g   Bardonnet, Karine ^b   Renner, Elisabeth ^c   Auer, Herbert ^d   Pawlowski, Zbigniew ^e   Ammann, Rudolf W ^c   Vuitton, Dominique A ^f   Carlier, Y ^h   Kolarova, L ^h   Craig, P S ^h   Prousalidis, I ^h   Siracusano, A ^h   Van der Giessen, J ^h   Altintas, N ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ALVEOLAR ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LARVA; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RURAL AREA; SYMPTOM; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0037339745     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0903.020341     Document Type: Article

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