## Abstract We describe an innovative strategy to quantify risk of cancer associated with varying levels of exposure to chronic parasitic infection through the identification of asymptomatic cases of cholangiocarcinoma within a populationβbased survey of __Opisthorchis viverrini__ infection. Stool
Opisthorchis viverrini infection in rural and urban communities in northeast Thailand
β Scribed by Sucha Kurathong; Pravit Lerdverasirikul; Virasak Wongpaitoon; Chutima Pramoolsinsap; E.Suchart Upatham
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 380 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0035-9203
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