Diagnostic importance of headache as a key symptom in suspecting malaria in adult returning travelers

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 383-384

  Pherez, Francisco M ^a,b   Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAVEL;

EID: 70450284437     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.09.004     Document Type: Letter

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