Imported malaria in a cosmopolitan European city: A mirror image of the world epidemiological situation

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Millet, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Garcia De Olalla, Patricia ^a   Carrillo Santisteve, Paloma ^a   Gascón, Joaquim ^c   Trevĩo, Begõa ^d   Mũoz, José ^c   Gómez I Prat, Jordi ^d   Cabezos, Juan ^d   González Cordón, Anna ^b,c   Caylà, Joan A ^a  

^a AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Tropical Medicine and International Health Unit   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TOURISM; TRAVEL; TREND STUDY; WORKER; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; SPAIN; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; TRAVEL; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 43349099207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-56     Document Type: Article

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