Imported malaria in Qatar: A one year hospital-based study in 2005

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-117

  Yousef Khan, Fahmi ^a   Lutof, Abdu Kaed ^b   Yassin, Mohamed A ^a   Khattab, Mohammed Abu ^a   Saleh, Muhannad ^a   Rezeq, Husam Yousef ^c   Almaslamani, Muna ^a  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b Al Khor Hospital   (Qatar)

^c National Health Authority   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Malaria; P. falciparum malaria; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; PRIMAQUINE; QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QATAR; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QATAR; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 60449097160     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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