Fasciolopsiasis: A first case report from Malaysia

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 456-458

  Rohela, M ^a   Jamaiah, I ^a   Menon, J ^b   Rachel, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Queen Elizabeth Hospital   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; PRAZIQUANTEL; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ANAMNESIS; ANIMAL; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COUGHING; EGG; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLOPSIASIS; FASCIOLOPSIS BUSKI; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTROL; GRANULOMA; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INTESTINE PARASITE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALAYSIA; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; PALLOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLANT; TRAVEL; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 20444473780     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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