Prevalence and types of coinfections in sleeping sickness patients in Kenya (2000/2009)

Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kagira, J M ^a   Maina, N ^b   Njenga, J ^c   Karanja, S M ^b   Karori, S M ^d   Ngotho, J M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^b JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c National Sleeping Sickness Referral Hospital   (Kenya)

^d EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIAMEBIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; MELARSOPROL; SURAMIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; ENTAMOEBA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MALAISE; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SLEEP DISORDER; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRICHOMONAS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 81555220896     PISSN: 16879686     EISSN: 16879694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/248914     Document Type: Article

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