Cerebral mass in a 13-year-old girl following long-term sojourn in the Tropics

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 345-347

  Klotz, P ^a   Tappe, D ^a   Abele Horn, M ^a   Warmuth Metz, M ^a   Sorensen N ^a   Speer, C P ^a   Girschick, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; ISONIAZID; PRAZIQUANTEL; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CESTODE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GERMANY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PARASITE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAENIA SOLIUM; TRAVEL; TROPICS;

EID: 33645106456     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46381-0     Document Type: Article

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