Validation of ultrasonography for hepatic schistosomiasis using a porcine Schistosoma japonicum model

Acta Tropica

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 315-323

  Kardorff, Rüdiger ^a   Eriksen, Lis ^b   Nielsen, Dorte Hald ^b   Johansen, Maria Vang ^c  

^a Marien Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal models; Morbidity; Portal fibrosis; Schistosomiasis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SWINE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE MODEL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITIC LIVER DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; SPLEEN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALIA; JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PORTAL VEIN; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPLEEN; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0037347079     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(02)00268-1     Document Type: Article

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