Malaria and travel to the Dominican Republic [1]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 499-500

  Haro González, Juan L ^a   Bernabeu Wittel, Máximo ^a   Cañas, Elías ^a   Regordán, Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PAROMOMYCIN; PRIMAQUINE;

ADULT; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ENDOLIMAX; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; LETTER; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; TRAVEL; TRICHURIS;

EID: 14644388834     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1103.0400898     Document Type: Letter

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