Colpodella spp.- like parasite infection in woman, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-127

  Yuan, Cong L ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^b   Krause, Peter J ^c   Horak, Ales ^b   Bent, Stephen ^c   Rollend, Lindsay ^c   Hua, Xiu G ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ALGA; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CHROMERA; COLPODELLA; COLPODELLA LIKE PARASITE INFECTION; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG RESPONSE; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; FEMALE; FLAGELLATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; MALAISE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOSIS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; APICOMPLEXA; ARTEMISININS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 84856577665     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.110716     Document Type: Article

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