Neurocysticercosis: Assessing where the infection was acquired from

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 206-208

  Yanagida, Tetsuya ^a   Yuzawa, Izumi ^b   Joshi, Durga D ^c   Sako, Yasuhito ^a   Nakao, Minoru ^a   Nakaya, Kazuhiro ^a   Kawano, Nobuyuki ^d   Oka, Hidehiro ^b   Fujii, Kiyotaka ^b   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Zoonoses and Food Hygiene Research Centre NZFHRC   (Nepal)

^d Isobe Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTICERCUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDONESIA; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NEPAL; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PARASITOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TAENIA; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYSTICERCUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAENIA SOLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951249609     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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