Pleuropulmonary paragonimiasis due to Paragonimus heterotremus: molecular diagnosis, prevalence of infection and clinicoradiological features in an endemic area of northeastern India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 786-792

  Devi, K Rekha ^a   Narain, Kanwar ^a   Bhattacharya, S ^b   Negmu, K ^b   Agatsuma, Takeshi ^c   Blair, David ^d   Wickramashinghe, S ^c   Mahanta, J ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Community Health Centre ^*  (India)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

India; Internal transcribed spacers; Paragonimiasis; Paragonimus heterotremus; Phylogenetic analysis; Prevalence; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARAGONIMUS; PARAGONIMUS HETEROTREMUS; PARASITOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEUROPULMONARY PARAGONIMIASIS; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARAGONIMUS; PLEURAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SHELLFISH; SPUTUM;

PARAGONIMUS HETEROTREMUS;

EID: 34250751875     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.02.028     Document Type: Article

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