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N R de Silva¹, H L Guyatt, D A Bundy

¹Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.

Tropical Medicine & International Health : TM & IH

|February 1, 1997

Abstract:

Examination of 24 case reports suggests the worm burden in those presenting to hospital with intestinal obstruction is > 60 and is about tenfold higher in fatal cases.

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