Podoconiosis: Endemic nonfilarial elephantiasis

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-122

  Fuller, L Claire ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geochemical lymphoedema; Mossy foot; Nonfilarial elephantiasis; Nonfilarial lymphoedema; Podoconiosis

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELEPHANTIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHIOPIA; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHEDEMA; NONHUMAN; PODOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SOIL POLLUTION; TROPICAL DISEASE; VOLCANO;

EID: 15044345055     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.qco.0000160899.64190.15     Document Type: Review

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