Fourteen-year experience with imported malaria

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 186-192

  Focà, Alfredo ^a   Barreca, Giorgio S ^a   Barbieri, Vincenzo ^a   Matera, Giovanni ^a   Liberto, Maria Carla ^a   De Rosa, Marta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b AO BMM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calabria; Epidemiological surveillance; Immigrants; Imported malaria

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; PROGUANIL; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUININE DERIVATIVE; SULFALENE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; IMPORT DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL;

EID: 7044249629     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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