Pork as a source of human parasitic infection

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 586-594

  Djurkovic Djakovic O ^a   Bobic B ^a   Nikolic A ^a   Klun, I ^a   Dupouy Camet, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institut Cochin   (France)

Author keywords

Pork; Prevention; Taeniasis cysticercosis; Toxoplasmosis; Trichinellosis; Zoonotic parasites

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; MEBENDAZOLE; NICLOSAMIDE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRIMETHAMINE;

ALARIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; BALANTIDIUM COLI; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYSTICERCOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTAMOEBA POLECKI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GIARDIA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS SUIHOMINIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TAENIA ASIATICA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINOSIS; TRICHURIS SUIS; ZOONOSIS;

PROTOZOA; SARCOCYSTIS; TAENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRICHINELLA; VERMES;

EID: 84878916421     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12162     Document Type: Review

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