Intestinal protozoal parasites and diarrheal disease in Bangladesh

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1198-1200

  Ward, Honorine D ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; BANGLADESH; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES CULTURE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GROUPS BY AGE; INTESTINE PARASITE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ADULT; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549141199     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597581     Document Type: Note

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