Imported malaria: Six cases of severe Plasmodium falciparum infection in Innsbruck, Austria, within a period of five weeks (February/March 1999)

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 453-458

  Bellmann, Romuald ^b   Sturm, Wolfgang ^b   Pechlaner, Christoph ^b   Weiss, Günther ^b   Bellmann Weiler, Rosa ^b   Wiedermann, Christian J ^a   Patsch, Josef R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); Cerebral edema; Chloroquine; Doxycycline; Exchange transfusion; Malaria prophylaxis; Malaria tropica; Mefloquine; Plasmodium falciparum; Proguanil; Quinine

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROPHYLAXIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; AUSTRIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TETRACYCLINES; TRAVEL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0034685945     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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