Swedish traveller with Plasmodium knowlesi malaria after visiting Malaysian Borneo

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bronner, Ulf ^a   Divis, Paul C S ^b   Färnert, Anna ^a   Singh, Balbir ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEFLOQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; FOREST; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SWEDEN; TRAVEL; TROPHOZOITE; ANIMAL; BORNEO; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BORNEO; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN; TRAVEL;

EID: 60549084183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-15     Document Type: Article

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