Cryptosporidium parvum and Isospora belli infections among patients with and without diarrhoea

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 398-401

  Cranendonk, R J ^a   Kodde, C J ^a   Chipeta, D ^b   Zijlstra, E E ^b   Sluiters, J F ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCCIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOSPORA; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOSPORA; ISOSPORIASIS; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 10644283570     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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