Prevalence of Blastocystis hominis and Strongyloides stercoralis infection in Okinawa, Japan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1717-1719

  Hirata, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^b   Kinjo, Nagisa ^b   Hokama, Akira ^a   Kinjo, Fukunori ^b   Yamane, Nobuhisa ^b   Fujita, Jiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ETHER; FORMALDEHYDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 34948870377     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0712-7     Document Type: Article

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