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High intensity of Tunga penetrans infection causing severe disease among pigs in Busoga, South Eastern Uganda

BACKGROUND: Towards the improvement of stakeholders’ awareness of animal tungiasis, we report 10 unusual severe clinical cases of pig tungiasis which were associated with very high infection intensities of T. penetrans in an endemic area. RESULTS: Morbidity of ten pigs with high sand flea intensitie...

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Autores principales:	Mutebi, Francis, Krücken, Jürgen, Feldmeier, Hermann, Waiswa, Charles, Mencke, Norbert, Eneku, Wilfred, von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Georg
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-1127-z

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