Symptomatic chronic strongyloidiasis in children following treatment for solid organ malignancies: Case reports and literature review

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 479-488

  Mohamad, Norsarwany ^a   Zueter, Abdelrahman ^b   Noordin, Rahmah ^c   Nasir, Ariffin ^a   Ariffin, Norsyahida ^c   Basuni, Madihah ^c   Mohamed, Zeehaida ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE INFORMM   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GENETICS; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOID TUMOR; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TERATOMA;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LARVA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOID TUMOR; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TERATOMA;

EID: 84866896489     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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