Dientamoebiasis: Clinical importance and recent advances

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 92-96

  Stark, Damien J ^a   Beebe, Nigel ^b   Marriott, Deborah ^a   Ellis, John T ^c   Harkness, John ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PAROMOMYCIN; SECNIDAZOLE;

CHRONIC DIARRHEA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIENTAMOEBA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SARCOMASTIGOPHORA INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; DIARRHEA; DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBA FRAGILIS; SARCOMASTIGOPHORA;

EID: 31344452332     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2005.12.001     Document Type: Review

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