Nosocomial malaria and saline flush

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1097-1099

  Jain, Sanjay K ^a   Persaud, Deborah ^a   Perl, Trish M ^a   Pass, Margaret A ^a   Murphy, Kathleen M ^a   Pisciotta, John M ^a   Scholl, Peter F ^a   Casella, James F ^a   Sullivan, David J ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SYRINGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21144441139     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1107.050092     Document Type: Article

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