Delayed onset of malaria - Implications for chemoprophylaxis in travelers

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1510-1516

  Schwartz, Eli ^a,b   Parise, Monica ^c   Kozarsky, Phyllis ^c   Cetron, Martin ^c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; PROGUANIL; TAFENOQUINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DISEASE COURSE; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; ISRAEL; LIFE CYCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SCHIZONT; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; TIME;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MEFLOQUINE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141974812     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021592     Document Type: Article

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