Amoebiasis: Current status in Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 186, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 412-416

  van Hal, Sebastiaan J ^a   Stark, Damien J ^a   Fotedar, Rashmi ^a   Marriott, Debbie ^a   Ellis, John T ^b   Harkness, Jock L ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; PAROMOMYCIN; TINIDAZOLE;

AMEBIASIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL;

EID: 34247862316     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00975.x     Document Type: Article

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