Congenital malaria - a case report from a non-endemic area

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 326-329

  Sankar, Jayaram ^a   Menon, Rejeesh ^a   Kottarathara, Arun Jose ^a  

^a Govt TD Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREGNANCY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77957656572     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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