Loa loa infection in a patient with thymoma

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 85-87

  Landry, Pierre ^a,d   Bassi, Cécile ^b   Christen, Brigitte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital Pourtales Neuchatelois   (Switzerland)

^c Inst Neuchatelois Anat P   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Loa loa infection; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; FLUCONAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAMEROON; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SIDE EFFECT; STERNOTOMY; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; TRAVEL;

EID: 3543080403     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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