Onchocerca jakutensis filariasis in humans

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1749-1752

  Koehsler, Martina ^a   Soleiman, Afschin ^a   Aspöck, Horst ^a   Auer, Herbert ^a   Walochnik, Julia ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIROFILARIA; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA JAKUTENSIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 36248972642     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1311.070017     Document Type: Article

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