Adult opisthorchis viverrini flukes in humans, Takeo, Cambodia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1302-1304

  Sohn, Woon Mok ^a   Shin, Eun Hee ^b   Yong, Tai Soon ^c   Eom, Keeseon S ^d   Jeong, Hoo Gn ^e   Sinuon, Muth ^f   Socheat, Duong ^f   Chai, Jong Yil ^e  

^a Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Korea Association of Health Promotion   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

CAMBODIA; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; CYCLOCHEILICHTHYS APAGON; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FECES ANALYSIS; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAPLORCHIS PUMILIO; HAPLORCHIS TAICHUI; HAPLORCHIS YOKOGAWAI; HUMAN; LETTER; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHANEROPSOLUS BONNEI; PROSTHODENDRIUM MOLENKAMPI; PUNTIOPLITES PROCTOZYSRON; WORM EGG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CAMBODIA; CATHARTICS; CRICETINAE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FECES; FEMALE; FISHES; HUMANS; MALE; METACERCARIAE; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PRAZIQUANTEL;

EID: 79959907144     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.102071     Document Type: Letter

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