Risk factors for intestinal invasive amebiasis in Japan, 2003-2009

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 717-724

  Nagata, Naoyoshi ^a   Shimbo, Takuro ^a   Akiyama, Junichi ^a   Nakashima, Ryo ^a   Nishimura, So ^b   Yada, Tomoyuki ^b   Watanabe, Koji ^a   Oka, Shinichi ^a   Uemura, Naomi ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b 1 7 1 Kohnodai   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMEBIASIS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPATITIS B; HISTOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; COINFECTION; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84859827142     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1805.111275     Document Type: Review

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