A boy with nosocomial malaria tropica contracted in a Dutch hospital

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-91

  Winterberg, Dirk H ^a   Wever, Peter C ^a   Van Rheenen Verberg, Cora ^a   Kempers, Oscarina ^a   Durand, Rémy ^b   Bos, Albert P ^a   Teeuw, Arianne H ^a   Spanjaard, Lodewijk ^a   Dankert, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Hospital acquired malaria; Nosocomial transmission; Occult blood; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ANIMAL; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 13944281404     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000148881.92329.f6     Document Type: Article

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