Morbidity assessment in sand flea disease (tungiasis)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 413-421

  Kehr, Judith Dorothea ^a   Heukelbach, Jörg ^b   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^c   Feldmeier, Hermann ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAND FLEA; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AMERICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUNGIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOOT; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT REPELLENTS;

SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TUNGA PENETRANS;

EID: 33845390698     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0348-z     Document Type: Article

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