Case report: Gnathostomiasis in two travelers to Zambia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 707-709

  Hale, DeVon C ^a   Blumberg, Lucille ^b   Frean, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MALE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; RASH; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN DEFECT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THELAZIA; TRAVEL; ZAMBIA; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CYPRINIFORMES; FOOD CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; GNATHOSTOMA; NEMATODA; THELAZIA;

AGED; ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; GNATHOSTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; ZAMBIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0042737846     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2003.68.707     Document Type: Article

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