Echinococcus vogeli infection in a hunter, French Guiana

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2029-2031

  Knapp, Jenny ^a,b,e   Chirica, Mircea ^c   Simonnet, Christine ^d   Grenouillet, Frederic ^a,e   Bart, Jean Mathieu ^a   Sako, Yasuhito ^b   Itoh, Sonoyo ^b   Nakao, Minoru ^b   Ito, Akira ^b   Millon, Laurence ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Pasteur Institute of French Guiana   (French Guiana)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; GADOLINIUM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS VOGELI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FRENCH GUIANA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RAIN FOREST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 73949110602     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1512.090940     Document Type: Article

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