Fascioliasis: A worldwide parasitic disease of importance in travel medicine

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 636-649

  Ashrafi, Keyhan ^a,b   Bargues, M Dolores ^c   O'Neill, Sandra ^d   Mas Coma, Santiago ^c  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fasciola gigantica; Fasciola hepatica; Increasing traveller reports; Preventive measures; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; EMETINE; MEBENDAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; NITAZOXANIDE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TRICLABENDAZOLE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AFRICA; ASIA; CLERGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EMPORIATRICS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EUROPE; FASCIOLIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; METACERCARIA; MIGRANT; NONHUMAN; REFUGEE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SPHINCTEROTOMY; TRAVEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ANIMAL; FASCIOLA; FOOD POISONING; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84916883822     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.09.006     Document Type: Review

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