Marseilles: A surveillance site for malaria from the Comoros Islands

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 184-186

  Parola, Philippe ^a,c   Gazin, Pierre ^b   Pradines, Bruno ^c   Parzy, Daniel ^c   Delmont, Jean ^a   Brouqui, Philippe ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FRANCE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIGRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGENY; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL;

EID: 3142593928     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2004.18470     Document Type: Article

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