Imported cases of malaria admitted to a hospital in Western Venezuela, 1998-2009

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 269-271

  Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,b,c   Herrera Martínez, Aura D ^d   Herrera Martínez, Yiraldine ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTROCCIDENTAL LISANDRO ALVARADO   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; QUININE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPORIATRICS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; MALAISE; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYALGIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; VENEZUELA; VOMITING;

ADULT; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAVEL; VENEZUELA;

EID: 78049246991     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.07.003     Document Type: Letter

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