Gnathostomiasis: Import from Laos;Gnathostomiasis: Import aus Laos

JDDG - Journal of the German Society of Dermatology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 414-416

  Hennies, Felix ^a,b   Jappe, Uta ^a,b   Kapaun, Annette ^b   Enk, Alexander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cheek swelling; Creeping eruption; Gnathostomiasis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; GNATHOSTOMA DOLORESI; GNATHOSTOMIASIS; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; LAOS; NAUSEA; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PRURITUS; SORE THROAT; THELAZIA; TRAVEL; VOMITING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; GNATHOSTOMA; HUMANS; LAOS; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646568788     PISSN: 16100379     EISSN: 16100387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1610-0387.2006.05942.x     Document Type: Article

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