Cutaneous onchocerciasis in an American traveler

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-128

  Nguyen, Josephine C ^a,b,c,d,e   Murphy, Michael E ^a,b,c,d,e   Nutman, Thomas B ^a,b,c,d,e   Neafie, Ronald C ^a,b,c,d,e   Maturo, Stephen ^a,b,c,d,e   Burke, Donald S ^a,b,c,d,e   Turiansky, George W ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; IVERMECTIN; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; STEROID;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL AMERICA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FILARIASIS; FOLLICULITIS; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRURITUS; PUNCH BIOPSY; RASH; SKIN DISEASE; SOUTH AMERICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 14544283696     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2004.02203.x     Document Type: Article

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