Short report: Persistent eosinophilia and Strongyloides infection in Montagnard refugees after presumptive albendazole therapy

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 302-304

  Goswami, Neela D ^a   Shah, J Jina ^b   Corey, G Ralph ^b   Stout, Jason E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EOSINOPHILIA; FASCIOLIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REFUGEE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ETHNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; STRONGYLOIDES; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIET NAM;

FASCIOLA; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; VERMES;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; NORTH CAROLINA; REFUGEES; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIETNAM;

EID: 68549105999     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.81.302     Document Type: Article

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