Malaria and travellers visiting friends and relatives

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 161-168

  Pavli, Androula ^a   Maltezou, Helena C ^a  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Imported; VFRs; Malaria; Pre travel advice

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; INSECT REPELLENT; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLOTHING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIGRATION; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; TRAVEL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY; STATISTICS;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 77957288231     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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