Cryptic parasite infection in recent west African immigrants with relative eosinophilia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Carranza Rodriguez, Cristina ^a,b   Pardo Lledias, Javier ^c   Muro Alvarez, Antonio ^c   Pérez Arellano, José Luis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEROLOGY; AFRICA; ANIMAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIGRATION; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY;

ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 40749094070     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/528865     Document Type: Article

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