Giardia duodenalis assemblage, clinical presentation and markers of intestinal inflammation in Brazilian children

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 718-725

  Kohli, Anita ^a,b   Bushen, Oluma Y ^a   Pinkerton, Relana C ^a   Houpt, Eric ^a   Newman, Robert D ^c   Sears, Cynthia L ^d   Lima, Aldo A M ^e   Guerrant, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Institute of Biomedicine   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cysts; Diarrhoea; Genotype; Giardia; Lactoferrin

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POVERTY AREAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 46549083112     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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