Tsunami, post-tsunami malaria situation in Nancowry group of islands, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar islands

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-82

  Manimunda, Sathya Prakash ^a   Sugunan, Attayoor Purushottaman ^a   Sha, Wajid Ali ^b   Singh, Shiv Shankar ^b   Shriram, Ananganallur Nagarajan ^b   Vijayachari, Paluru ^a  

^a ICMR Regional Medical Research Centre   (India)

^b GB Pant General Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman and Nicobar islands; Construction; Labour migration; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MASS RADICAL THERAPY; MIGRANT WORKER; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREND STUDY; TSUNAMI; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; MIGRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 79851477911     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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