Acute schistosomiasis in European students returning from fieldwork at Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 380-383

  Steiner, Florian ^a   Ignatius, Ralf ^a   Friedrich Jaenicke, Barbara ^a   Dieckmann, Sebastian ^a   Harms, Gundel ^a   Poppert, Sven ^b   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LAKE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STUDENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TANZANIA; TRAVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRESH WATER; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STUDENTS; TANZANIA; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886947385     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12069     Document Type: Article

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