Strongyloides stercoralis first-stage larvae in the lungs of a patient with AIDS: Primary localization or a noninvasive form of dissemination

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 737-

  Cirioni, Oscar ^a   Giacometti, Andrea ^b   Burzacchini, Fabrizio ^b   Balducci, Maria ^b   Scalise, Giorgio ^b  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARVA; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 19244362045     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.4.737     Document Type: Article

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