Human African trypanosomiasis in a Belgian traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, February 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Clerinx, J ^a   Vlieghe, E ^a,b   Asselman, V ^a,b   van de Casteele, S ^c   Maes, M B ^b   Lejon, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SURAMIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BELGIUM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; SYPHILIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

EID: 84858187786     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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