Trends in imported malaria to Basel, Switzerland

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 432-436

  Thierfelder, Clara ^a   Schill, Catherine ^b   Hatz, Christoph ^b   Nüesch, Reto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SWITZERLAND; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TRAVEL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56849090280     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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