Eight cases of fascioliasis: Clinical and microbiological features

Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-46

  Dauchy, F A ^a   Vincendeau, P ^b   Lifermann, F ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier de Dax   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Distomatosis; Fasciola hepatica; Triclabendazole

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRICLABENDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIOLIASIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PSEUDOTUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BENZIMIDAZOLES; COUNTERIMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUODENUM; DYSPNEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NASTURTIUM; PAIN;

EID: 31944440506     PISSN: 0399077X     EISSN: 17696690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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