Cardiac involvement with parasitic infections

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 324-349

  Hidron, Alicia ^a   Vogenthaler, Nicholas ^a   Santos Preciado, José I ^b   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^c,d   Franco Paredes, Carlos ^a,e   Rassi Jr , Anis ^f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^e HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^f Anis Rassi Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AMIODARONE; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZNIDAZOLE; CORTICOSTEROID; EFLORNITHINE; FOLINIC ACID; MEBENDAZOLE; MELARSOPROL; METRONIDAZOLE; NIFURTIMOX; PENTAMIDINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SURAMIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AMEBIASIS; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDITIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTICERCOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FILARIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; MYOCARDITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SARCOCYSTIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN ALLERGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRICHINOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

ANIMALS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 77950675506     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00054-09     Document Type: Review

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