Opisthochiasis from imported raw fish

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2122-2126

  Yossepowitch, Orit ^a   Gotesman, Tamar ^a   Assous, Mark ^b   Marva, Esther ^b   Zimlichman, Reuven ^a   Dan, Michael ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FAMILY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITE ISOLATION; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARP; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CARPS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PRAZIQUANTEL; SIBERIA;

EID: 9744284166     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1012.040410     Document Type: Review

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