Prevalence of intestinal parasites in the area of Parma during the year 2005

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Peruzzi, Simona ^a   Gorrini, Chiara ^a   Piccolo, Giovanna ^a   Calderaro, Adriana ^a   Dettori, Giuseppe ^a   Chezzi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Gastrointestinal disease; Intestinal parasitosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRAVEL; TROPHOZOITE; ADOPTION; ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; ITALY; MIGRATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

ADOPTION; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ITALY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS;

EID: 34047098318     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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