Frequency of enteric protozoan parasites among patients with gastrointestinal complaints in medical centers of Zahedan, Iran

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 452-454

  Haghighi, Ali ^a   Khorashad, Alireza Salimi ^b   Mojarad, Ehsan Nazemalhosseini ^a   Kazemi, Bahram ^a   Nejad, Mohammad Rostami ^a   Rasti, Sima ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal diseases; Iran; Microscopy; Parasitic intestinal diseases; PCR; Protozoan infections

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; TRICHOMONAS; TROPICS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANIMALS; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IRAN; MALE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS;

BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILOMASTIX MESNILI; ENTAMOEBA COLI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; IODAMOEBA BUETSCHLII; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONAS;

EID: 63449113251     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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