Imported human tungiasis in Greece

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 375-377

  Dialynas, Michael ^a   Karakosta, Polyxeni ^a   Haniotis, Vrettos ^a   Fanouriakis, Antonios ^a   Panagiotaki, Evangelia ^b   Maraki, Sofia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Agios Nikolaos   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Tunga penetrans; Tungiasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL AMERICA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FLEA; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PARASITOSIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SOUTH AMERICA; TANZANIA; TOE; TUNGIASIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70450257753     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.09.006     Document Type: Note

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