Short report: Persistent and untreated tropical infectious diseases among Sudanese refugees in the United States

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 633-635

  Franco Paredes, Carlos ^a,b   Dismukes, Roberta ^b   Nicolls, Deborah ^b   Hidron, Alicia ^b   Workowski, Kimberly ^b   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso ^c   Wilson, Marianna ^d   Jones, Danielle ^b   Manyang, Peter ^e   Kozarsky, Phyllis ^b  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Universidad de Los Andes ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILARIA; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEROLOGY; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SUDAN; TROPICAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; VIROLOGY;

SCHISTOSOMA; STRONGYLOIDES;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; REFUGEES; SUDAN; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38449114165     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.633     Document Type: Article

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