Microsporidiosis: An emerging and opportunistic infection;Microsporidiosis: Una infección emergente y oportunista

Investigacion Clinica

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Chacín Bonilla, Leonor ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIARRHEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WATER SUPPLY; ZOONOSIS; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTROL; MEAT; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VENEZUELA; WILD ANIMAL;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MEAT; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENEZUELA;

EID: 33745226448     PISSN: 05355133     EISSN: 05355133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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