Intestinal parasites in adults admitted to a rural Ethiopian hospital: Relationship to tuberculosis and malaria

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 460-462

  Ramos, Jose Manuel ^a,b   Reyes, Francisco ^b   Tesfamariam, Abraham ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b Gambo General Rural Hospital   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTAMOEBA; ETHIOPIA; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELPER CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ETHIOPIA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33746605152     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500525187     Document Type: Article

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