Spleen abscess as malaria complication [9]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 529-531

  Contini, Sandro ^a   Lewis, Harold R N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Emergency Hospital Goderich   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; LIVER ENZYME; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIASIS; LETTER; MALARIA; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OVARY TUMOR; PARACENTESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 33644500151     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.050311     Document Type: Letter

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