Malaria in Car Nicobar Island in the aftermath of the tsunami: Some observations

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 217-218

  Manimunda, Sathya Prakash ^a   Shah, Wajid Ali ^b   Shriram, Ananganalluru Nagarajan ^a   Sugunan, Attayooru Purushottaman ^a   Titus, Eapen ^c   Charles, A ^a   Vijayachari, Paluru ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b GB Pant General Hospital   (India)

^c BJR Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; TSUNAMI;

DISASTERS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 72449211939     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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