Intestinal parasites, including Cryptosporidium species, in Iraqi patients with sickle-cell anaemia

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 345-349

  Mahdi, N K ^a   Ali, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; IRAQ; ISOSPORA BELLI; MALE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAENIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IRAQ; ISOSPORIASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4444244026     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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