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World J Gastroenterol. May 21, 2012; 18(19): 2430-2433
Published online May 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i19.2430
Giardia infection: Protein-losing enteropathy in an adult with immunodeficiency
Alexandre Khodr Furtado, Virginia Lucia Ribeiro Cabral, Thiago Nunes Santos, Eli Mansour, Cristiane Kibune Nagasako, Sonia Leticia Lorena, Rogerio Antunes Pereira-Filho
Alexandre Khodr Furtado, Virginia Lucia Ribeiro Cabral, Thiago Nunes Santos, Eli Mansour, Cristiane Kibune Nagasako, Sonia Leticia Lorena, Rogerio Antunes Pereira-Filho, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade de Campinas-Unicamp, Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, Cidade Universitária “Zeferino Vaz”, 13083-887 Campinas, Brazil
Author contributions: Furtado AK and Cabral VLR made substantial contributions to study conception and design, drafted the article and revised it critically for important intellectual content; Santos TN analyzed the data; Mansour E, Nagasako CK, Lorena SL and Pereira-Filho RA contributed to collecting patients, endoscopic procedures, the acquisition of data and analysis and interpretation; all authors approved the version to be published.
Correspondence to: Alexandre Khodr Furtado, MD, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade de Campinas-Unicamp, Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, Cidade Universitária “Zeferino Vaz”, 13083-887 Campinas, Brazil. alexandrekhodr@gmail.com
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Received: June 25, 2011
Revised: September 23, 2011
Accepted: April 12, 2012
Published online: May 21, 2012
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