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South Med J
; 77(8): 995-7, 1000, 1984 Aug.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-6463701
RESUMO
Three diseases representative of specific health conditions affecting the Southeast Asian refugees living in middle Tennessee are leprosy (chronic bacterial infections), liver fluke infection (parasitic diseases), and hemoglobin E-beta-thalassemia (hematologic disorders). In this paper we discuss incidence, causative agent, mode of transmission, metabolic abnormalities, and management of these conditions.