Programme for ultrasound diagnoses and treatment with albendazole of cystic echinococcosis in asymptomatic carriers: 10 years of follow-up of cases

Acta Tropica

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Larrieu, Edmundo ^a   Del Carpio, Mario ^b   Mercapide, Carlos Hugo ^b   Salvitti, Juan Carlos ^b   Sustercic, Jose ^b   Moguilensky, Jorge ^b   Panomarenko, Hector ^b   Uchiumi, Leonardo ^b   Herrero, Eduardo ^b   Talmon, Gabriel ^b   Volpe, Marcela ^b   Araya, Daniel ^b   Mujica, Gabriel ^b   Mancini, Sergio ^b   Labanchi, Jose Luis ^b   Odriozola, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^b National Ministry of Health   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Albendazol; Cystic echinococcosis; Follow up; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE; RANITIDINE;

ALGORITHM; CYST; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDEMISM; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ADOLESCENT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; ARGENTINA; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; DRUG MONITORING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ARGENTINA; RIO NEGRO [ARGENTINA];

EID: 78049478861     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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