Trends in parasitic diseases in the Republic of Korea

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-150

  Shin, Eun Hee ^a   Guk, Sang Mee ^a   Kim, Hyo Jin ^a   Lee, Soon Hyung ^a   Chai, Jong Yil ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACANTHOPARYPHIUM TYOSENENSE; ANISAKIASIS; ASCARIASIS; BABESIOSIS; BRUGIAN FILARIASIS; CENTROCESTUS ARMATUS; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCHASMUS JAPONICUS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CINETORCHIS; ECHINOSTOMA HORTENSE; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FASCIOLIASIS; FILARIASIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GYMNOPHALLOIDES SEOI; GYMNOPHALLOIDIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HETEROPHYES NOCENS; HETEROPHYOPSIS CONTINUA; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INTESTINE; KOREA; LARVA MIGRANS; MALARIA; METAGONIMIASIS; METAGONIMUS MIYATAI; METAGONIMUS TAKAHASHII; METAGONIMUS YOKOGAWAI; MYIASIS; NEODIPLOSTOMUM SEOULENSE; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARAGONIMUS WESTERMANI; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PYGIDIOPSIS SUMMA; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOIL TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STELLANTCHASMUS FALCATUS; STICTODORA FUSCATA; STICTODORA LARI; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TAENIA; TAENIA ASIATICA; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAPEWORM INFECTION; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; TREND STUDY; TRICHINOSIS; TRICHURIASIS; VIVAX MALARIA;

ANIMALS; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; KOREA; PARASITIC DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; BRUGIA; TREMATODA;

EID: 39749085092     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2007.12.003     Document Type: Review

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