Travel-related schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis, filariasis, and toxocariasis: The risk of infection and the diagnostic relevance of blood eosinophilia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Baaten, Gijs G ^a,b,c   Sonder, Gerard J ^a,b,c   van Gool, Tom ^b   Kint, Joan A ^a   van den Hoek, Anneke ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c National Coordination Centre for Traveler's Health Advice LCR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eosinophiliatravel; Helminth infection; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

FILARIA ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIBODY; SCHISTOSOMA ANTIBODY; STRONGYLOIDES ANTIBODY; TOXOCARA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD DONOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYMPTOM; TOXOCARIASIS; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; EOSINOPHILIA; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TOXOCARIASIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 79953269808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-84     Document Type: Article

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