Amebic liver abscess in HIV-infected patients, republic of Korea [12]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 516-517

  Wan, Beom Park ^a   Pyoeng, Gyun Choe ^a   Jae, Hyun Jo ^a   Kim, Sung Han ^a   Ji, Hwan Bang ^a   Hong, Bin Kim ^a   Nam, Joong Kim ^a   Oh, Myoung Don ^a   Kang, Won Choe ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEPATOGRAPHY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH KOREA; SPLENECTOMY; THYMECTOMY; TROPHOZOITE;

EID: 33847366352     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1303.060894     Document Type: Letter

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