Ongoing outbreak of an acute muscular Sarcocystis-like illness among travellers returning from Tioman Island, Malaysia, 2011-2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 45, 2012, Pages

  Esposito, D H ^a   Freedman, D O ^b   Neumayr, A ^c   Parola, P ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; EMPORIATRICS; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSITIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TRAVEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84869836499     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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