| Literature DB >> 18260784 |
Cristina Carranza-Rodriguez1, Javier Pardo-Lledias, Antonio Muro-Alvarez, J L Pérez-Arellano.
Abstract
Relative eosinophilia (defined as an eosinophil percentage >5% but an eosinophil count <450 cells/microL) is significantly associated with helminth infection in recently arrived West African immigrants (odds ratio, 20.5; 95% confidence interval, 2.7-154). The main parasitic causes related to relative eosinophilia are geohelminthic diseases (specifically, hookworms) and schistosomiasis.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18260784 DOI： 10.1086/528865
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN： 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079