Strongyloides stercoralis infection: A health issue regarding indigenous people in Taiwan

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 468-472

  Wu, Ta Chung ^a   Lei, Wei Yi ^a   Chen, Ming Cheh ^a   Hu, Chi Tan ^a,b  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Indigenous peoples; Strongyloides stercoralis; Strongyloidiasis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHINESE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCURRENT INFECTION; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION RATE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TAIWAN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULOSIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

LEPTOSPIRA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 84863559307     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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