Notes from the field: Acute muscular sarcocystosis among returning travelers-Tioman island, Malaysia, 2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 37-38

  von Sonnenburg, Frank ^a   Cramer, Jakob P ^b   Freedman, David O ^c   Plier, D Adam ^c   Esposito, Douglas H ^d   Sotir, Mark J ^d   Lankau, Emily W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NOTE; PARASITOLOGY; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAVEL; WATER SUPPLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84856479430     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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