Tungiasis: More than an exotic nuisance

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 159-166

  Franck, Sabine ^a   Feldmeier, Hermann ^a   Heukelbach, Jörg ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Fundacao Mandacaru   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Case reports; Epidemiology; Jigger; Review; Travel; Tunga penetrans; Tungiasis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOLOGY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FLEA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MORBIDITY; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAND FLEA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; SUPERINFECTION; TRAVEL; TUNGIASIS;

EID: 1142290456     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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