Review of parasitic zoonoses in Egypt

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-14

  Youssef, Ahmed I ^a,b   Uga, Shoji ^b  

^a SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Egypt; Helminth; Parasites; Protozoa; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AMEBIASIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; DIROFILARIASIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIOLIASIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIASIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTESTINE INFECTION; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PIROPLASMOSIS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; RODENT; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOIL POLLUTION; STRAY DOG; TAENIASIS; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84896443875     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2013-23     Document Type: Review

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