The incidence of malaria in travellers to South-East Asia: Is local malaria transmission a useful risk indicator?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Behrens, Ron H ^a,b   Carroll, Bernadette ^a   Hellgren, Urban ^c   Visser, Leo G ^d   Siikamäki, Heli ^e   Vestergaard, Lasse S ^f   Calleri, Guido ^g   Jänisch, Thomas ^h   Myrvang, Bjørn ⁱ   Gascon, Joaquim ^j   Hatz, Christoph ^k  

^a HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^g AMEDEO DI SAVOIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

ⁱ ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^j HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPORIATRICS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

ANTIMALARIALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CHEMOPREVENTION; EUROPE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957288029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-266     Document Type: Article

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