Towards Improved Diagnosis of Zoonotic Trematode Infections in Southeast Asia

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 73, Issue C, 2010, Pages 171-195

  Johansen, Maria Vang ^a   Sithithaworn, Paiboon ^b   Bergquist, Robert ^c   Utzinger, Jürg ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Brastad   (Sweden)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELISARTAN;

BOOK; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLOPSIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METAGONIMIASIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PARAGONIMUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TELEMEDICINE; TREMATODIASIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; IMMUNOASSAY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; TREMATODE; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELEMEDICINE; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77954609785     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(10)73007-4     Document Type: Chapter

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