Bed bugs can cause severe anaemia in adults

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2577-2579

  Paulke Korinek, Maria ^a,b   Széll, Marton ^a   Laferl, Hermann ^a   Auer, Herbert ^b   Wenisch, Christoph ^a  

^a KAISER FRANZ JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; DALTEPARIN; ELECTROLYTE; FERRITIN; FUROSEMIDE; GABAPENTIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN; IRON; MIRTAZAPINE; THYROTROPIN; TRAMADOL; TROPONIN T; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BEDBUG BITE; CASE REPORT; CIMEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EPILEPSY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PROSTHESIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; BEDBUGS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DECONTAMINATION; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CIMEX LECTULARIUS; CIMICIDAE;

EID: 84863461000     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2777-6     Document Type: Article

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