Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!

Many studies from the Indian subcontinent have revealed a strong association between amoebic liver abscess and consumption of toddy – an alcoholic beverage containing fermented palm juice. This article discusses the issues related to this potentially important problem so that appropriate preventive...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ramesh, Jha, Ashish K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6586571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31276047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12137
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spelling pubmed-65865712019-07-02 Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true! Kumar, Ramesh Jha, Ashish K JGH Open Commentaries Many studies from the Indian subcontinent have revealed a strong association between amoebic liver abscess and consumption of toddy – an alcoholic beverage containing fermented palm juice. This article discusses the issues related to this potentially important problem so that appropriate preventive steps can be taken. [Image: see text] Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2019-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6586571/ /pubmed/31276047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12137 Text en © 2019 The Authors. JGH Open: An open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology published by Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!
title Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!
title_full Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!
title_fullStr Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!
title_full_unstemmed Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!
title_short Association between local alcoholic beverages and amoebic liver abscess in the Indian subcontinent: Weird but true!
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6586571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31276047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12137
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