Parasites detected from diarrheal stool samples collected in Nepal

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-23

  Uga, Shoji ^a   Rai, Shiba Kumar ^b   Kimura, Kenji ^c   Rai, Ganesh ^d   Kimura, Daisuke ^a   Wakasugi, Miyuki ^a   Miyake, Yuko ^a   Ishiyama, Satoko ^b   Rajbhandari, Tribhuvan Prasad ^e  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NEPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Nepal)

^c Water Quality Center   (Japan)

^d Nepal   (Nepal)

^e Kanti Children's Hospital   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC ACID; ETHER DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTH; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTATION; TRICHURIS;

EID: 3042708362     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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