Heavy infection with Armillifer moniliformis: A case report

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 262-264

  Pan, Cun Mei ^a   Tang, Hong Feng ^a   Qiu, Ming Hua ^b   Xiong, Qi Xing ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Armillifer moniliformis; Pentastomiasis; Pentastomid

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARMILLIFER MONILIFORMIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSULTATION; DIARRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER NODULE; MALE; PARASITOSIS; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORM;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 13944257823     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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