Urban transmission of human African trypanosomiasis, Gabon

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 165-167

  Simon, Fabrice ^a   Mura, Marie ^a   Pagès, Frédéric ^b   Morand, Gabriel ^a   Truc, Philippe ^c   Louis, Francis ^d   Gautret, Philippe ^a  

^a LAVERAN MILITARY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d ORGANISATION DE COORDINATION POUR LA LUTTE CONTRE LES ENDÉMIES EN AFRIQUE CENTRALE   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PENTAMIDINE; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHEMA; ETHNIC GROUP; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOOT PARESTHESIA; GABON; HAND PARESTHESIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INSECT BITE; INSOMNIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PARESTHESIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGUESE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PRURITUS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INDURATION; SUBCLAVICULAR LYMPH NODE; TRAVEL; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; TSETSE FLY; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

GABON; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENTAMIDINE; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84856582889     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.111384     Document Type: Letter

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