Giardiasis in patients with dyspeptic symptoms

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 42, 2005, Pages 6667-6670

  Yakoob, Javed ^a   Jafri, Wasim ^a   Abid, Shahab ^a   Jafri, Nadim ^a   Hamid, Saeed ^a   Ali Shah, Hasnain ^a   Rizvi, Lubna ^a   Islam, Muhammad ^a   shaikh, Hizbullah ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Doudenal biopsy; EGD; Giardiasis; Stool examination

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DUODENITIS; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DYSPEPSIA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 30444437776     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i42.6667     Document Type: Article

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