What's eating you? Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworms, Threadworms)

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 268-270

  Elston, Dirk M ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; MEBENDAZOLE; PIPERAZINE; PYRANTEL EMBONATE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ANOREXIA; ANUS PRURITUS; APPENDICITIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; ENURESIS; EOSINOPHILIA; HELMINTH; HUMAN; INFESTATION; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALPINGITIS; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN GRANULOMA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; ENTEROBIASIS; HUMANS;

EID: 0037659476     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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