Parasitic diseases of the heart

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 9, Issue , 2004, Pages 706-723

  Kirchhoff, Louis V ^a,b   Weiss, Louis M ^c   Wittner, Murray ^c   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amebiasis; Cardiomyopathy; Chagas' disease; Cysticercosis; Echinococcus; Endocardial fibroelastosis; Myocarditis; Parasites; Review; Toxoplasmosis; Trichinosis

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; EFLORNITHINE; PENTAMIDINE; SURAMIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMEBA PERICARDITIS; AMEBIASIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MEXICO; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERICARDITIS; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA MYOCARDITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRICHINOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROTOZOA; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PERICARDITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 2442668648     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1255     Document Type: Review

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