Relapse of intestinal and hepatic amebiasis after treatment

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 677-680

  Hwang, Elizabeth W ^a   Cheung, Lawrence ^a   Mojtahed, Amirkaveh ^a   Cartwright, Christine A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PAROMOMYCIN; TINIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COLON BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIARRHEA; ENDOSCOPY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEVER; HUMAN; INTESTINE AMEBIASIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER AMEBIASIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NIGHT SWEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RELAPSE; SEROLOGY; VOMITING;

AMEBICIDES; ANTIDIARRHEALS; COLONOSCOPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; HUMANS; IODOQUINOL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; LOPERAMIDE; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROMOMYCIN; RECURRENCE; TINIDAZOLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952370927     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-010-1492-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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