Brief history of the clinical diagnosis of malaria: From hippocrates to Osler

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-199

  Cunha, Cheston B ^a   Cunha, Burke A ^b,c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celsus; Clinical diagnosis of malaria; Hippocrates; Malaria in antiquity; Osler; Typhomalaria

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANOPHELES; ANTIQUITY; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWEATING; TYPHOID FEVER;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALARIA;

EID: 52249109780     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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