The current status of parasitic diseases in Japan

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 222-236

  Nakamura Uchiyama, Fukumi ^a   Hiromatsu, Kenji ^a   Ishiwata, Kenji ^a   Sakamoto, Yukiko ^a   Nawa, Yukifumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Emerging re emerging diseases; Food borne zoonoses; Imported parasitoses; Larva migrans; Orphan drugs

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLOROQUINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIETHYLCARBAMADINE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; EFLORNITHINE; FANSIDAR; IVERMECTIN; MELASOPROL; METRONIDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PRIMAQUINE PHOSPHATE; PYRANTEL EMBONATE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE DERIVATIVE; QUININE GLYCONATE; RIBAVIRIN; STEROID; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; SULFAMONOMETHOXINE; SURAMIN; TIABENDAZOLE; TRICLABENDAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AMEBIASIS; ASCARIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG FORMULATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FASCIOLIASIS; FILARIASIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GIARDIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LARVA MIGRANS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALARIA; NEMATODIASIS; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITOSIS; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAPEWORM INFECTION; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0037368010     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.222     Document Type: Review

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