A review of 79 patients with malaria seen at a military hospital in Hawaii from 1979 to 1995

Military Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 84-89

  Kortepeter, Mark ^b   Brown, Joel D ^a  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPLENOMEGALY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031887348     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/163.2.84     Document Type: Article

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