Schistosomiasis among recreational users of Upper Nile River, Uganda, 2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 866-868

  Morgan, Oliver W ^a   Brunette, Gary ^a   Kapella, Bryan K ^a   McAuliffe, Isabel ^a   Katongole Mbidde, Edward ^b   Li, Wenkai ^a   Marano, Nina ^a   Okware, Sam ^c   Olsen, Sonja J ^a   Secor, W Evan ^a   Tappero, Jordan W ^a   Wilkins, Patricia P ^a   Montgomery, Susan P ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Ugandan Virus Research Institute   (Uganda)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COUGHING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION CONTROL; RASH; RECREATION; RIVER; ROWING; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SELF MEDICATION; SEROCONVERSION; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PRAZIQUANTEL; RECREATION; RIVERS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SELF MEDICATION; TRAVEL MEDICINE; UGANDA;

EID: 77951176703     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1605.091740     Document Type: Article

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