An outbreak of malaria in a forward Battalion on active service in East Timor

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 457-459

  Kitchener, Scott ^a   Nasveld, Peter ^a   Russell, Bruce ^a   Elmes, Nathan ^a  

^a Army Malaria Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALARIA; MILITARY SERVICE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SIDE EFFECT; TIMOR-LESTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038130858     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.6.457     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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