Severe morbidity due to opisthorchis viverrini and schistosoma mekongi infection in lao people's Democratic Republic

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Sayasone, Somphou ^a,b,c   Rasphone, Oroth ^a   Vanmany, Monely ^a   Vounatsou, Penelope ^b,c   Utzinger, Jürg ^b,c   Tanner, Marcel ^b,c   Akkhavong, Kongsap ^a   Hatz, Christoph ^b,c,d   Odermatt, Peter ^b,c  

^a MAHOSOT HOSPITAL   (Laos)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMA; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAOS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865464824     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis528     Document Type: Article

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