A hospital-based retrospective survey of human cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, PR China

Acta Tropica

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 284-291

  Yang, Yu Rong ^a,b   Cheng, Li ^c   Yang, Shu Kun ^b   Pan, Xiao ^d   Sun, Tao ^b   Li, Xiuping ^b   Hu, Shangping ^b   Zhao, Rui ^b   Craig, Philip S ^e   Vuitton, Dominique A ^f   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Second Provincial Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region   (China)

^d Xiji County Hospital   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

Author keywords

Alveolar echinococcosis; Cystic echinococcosis; Hospital records; Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR); Retrospective survey

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE;

HEALTH AND DISEASE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCUS; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

CHINA; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NINGXIA HUIZU;

ECHINOCOCCUS;

EID: 33644519008     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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