Imported malaria among African immigrants: Is there still a relationship between developed countries and their ex-colonies?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Millet, Juan Pablo ^a,b   De Olalla, Patricia Garcia ^a   Gascón, Joaquim ^c   Prat, Jordi Gómez I ^d   Treviño, Begoña ^d   Pinazo, M Jesús ^c   Cabezos, Juan ^d   Muñoz, José ^c   Zarzuela, Francesc ^d   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; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; TRAVEL; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649191536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-111     Document Type: Article

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