Cystic echinococcosis in sub-Saharan Africa

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 871-880

  Wahlers, Kerstin ^a   Menezes, Colin N ^b   Wong, Michelle L ^b   Zeyhle, Eberhard ^c   Ahmed, Mohammed E ^d   Ocaido, Michael ^e   Stijnis, Cornelis ^f   Romig, Thomas ^g   Kern, Peter ^h   Grobusch, Martin P ^b,f,i  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c AMREF HEALTH AFRICA   (Kenya)

^d AL NEELAIN UNIVERSITY   (Sudan)

^e MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASPIRATION; BILE LEAKAGE; BURKINA FASO; CAMEL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COW; DOG; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ETHIOPIA; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MOLECULAR TYPING; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEEP; SOMALIA; SUDAN; SURGICAL INFECTION; SWINE; TANZANIA; UGANDA; ULTRASOUND; VIRULENCE; WARTHOG; ZIMBABWE; ANIMAL; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; VETERINARY;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84867917417     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(12)70155-X     Document Type: Review

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