Delusions of parasitosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Donabedian, Haig ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; COCAINE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; HALOPERIDOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PHENELZINE; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PIMOZIDE; PLACEBO; RISPERIDONE; SILVER CHLORIDE;

ANAMNESIS; BLURRED VISION; BREEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DELUSION; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DOG; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS; FECES ANALYSIS; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEPTOSPIROSIS; METAZOON; MICROSCOPY; PARANOIA; PARASITOSIS; PARKINSONISM; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORM; WORM INFECTION; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 40949098576     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523004     Document Type: Review

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