A study on cercarial dermatitis in Khuzestan province, south western Iran

BMC Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-4

  Farahnak, Ali ^a   Essalat, Mostafa ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CERCARIA; CERCARIAL DERMATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATITIS; HAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; LEG; LYMNAEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PAPULAR SKIN DISEASE; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PRURITUS; RASH; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRICHOBILHARZIA;

EID: 3042577842     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-3-35     Document Type: Article

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