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Cluster of angiostrongyliasis cases following consumption of raw monitor lizard in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and review of the literature
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Angiostrongyliasis in humans causes a range of symptoms from mild headache and myalgia to neurological complications, coma and death. Infection is caused by the consumption of raw or undercooked intermediate or paratenic hosts infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis or via contaminated vegetables or water. We describe a cluster of cases involved in the shared meal of wild raw monitor lizard in the Lao PDR. Seven males, aged 22–36 years, reported headaches, abdominal pain, arthralgia, myalgi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- 107
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-11
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- ISSN:
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2414-6366
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1182930
- Local pid:
- pubs:1182930
- Deposit date:
- 2021-06-21
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- Yang et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- ©2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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