Schistosoma haematobium Infection in Workers Returning from Africa to China

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 256-258

  Wang, Zhong Quan ^a   Wang, Ye ^b   Jia, Long Jiang ^a   Cui, Jing ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b First Affiliated Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRAZINAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CYSTITIS; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EOSINOPHIL; EROSION; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYDROURETER; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LAKE; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RIVER; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; STONE FORMATION; SWIMMING; TANZANIA; TISSUE SECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; URETER POLYP; URINALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMALS; CHINA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; TRAVEL; URINALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84879796913     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12032     Document Type: Article

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