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Epidemiology and factors associated with amoebic liver abscess in northern Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Clinically diagnosed amoebic liver abscess (ALA) caused by Entamoeba histolytica has been an important public health problem in Jaffna district, northern Sri Lanka for last three decades. In order to draw up a control strategy for elimination of this condition, knowledge of its epidemiol...

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Autores principales: Kannathasan, Selvam, Murugananthan, Arumugam, Kumanan, Thirunavukarasu, de Silva, Nilanthi Renuka, Rajeshkannan, Nadarajah, Haque, Rashidul, Iddawela, Devika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5761098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29316900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5036-2