Schistosomiasis in travellers and migrants

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-24

  Clerinx, Jan ^a   Van Gompel, Alfons ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Review; Schistosomiasis; Travellers

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; CORTICOSTEROID; MEFLOQUINE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CERCARIA; CYSTOSCOPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMIGRANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; MIGRANT WORKER; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRAVEL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 79951812034     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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