Ocular toxocariasis --- United States, 2009--2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 734-736

  Lum, Flora C ^a   Hoskins Jr, H Dunbar ^a   Moorthy, Ramana S ^b   Read, Russell W ^c   Starr, Michelle C ^c   Montgomery, Susan P ^d   Jones, Jeffrey L ^d   Woodhall, Dana M ^d  

^a American Academy of Ophthalmology   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CHILD; DOG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CATS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 79959324094     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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