Imported Katayama fever: Clinical and biological features at presentation and during treatment

Journal of Infection

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 339-345

  Bottieau, Emmanuel ^a   Clerinx, Jan ^a   de Vega, Maria Rosario ^a   Van den Enden, Erwin ^a   Colebunders, Robert ^a,b,c   Van Esbroeck, Marjan ^a   Vervoort, Tony ^a   Van Gompel, Alfons ^a   Van den Ende, Jef ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b AIDS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Africa; Eosinophilia; Katayama; Praziquantel; Schistosomiasis; Traveller

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PRAZIQUANTEL; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEROCONVERSION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRAZIQUANTEL; RECURRENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 33645945920     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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