Intestinal parasitic infections: Prevalences in HIV/AIDS patients in a Thai AIDS-care centre

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 573-581

  Saksirisampant, W ^a   Prownebon, J ^a   Saksirisampant, P ^a   Mungthin, M ^b   Siripatanapipong, S ^b   Leelayoova, S ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b PHRAMONGKUTKLAO HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; ISOSPORA BELLI; ISOSPORIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; THAILAND;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

BLASTOCYSTIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; ISOSPORA BELLI; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 73449123736     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349809X12502035776072     Document Type: Article

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