Unexpectedly long incubation period of Plasmodium vivax malaria, in the absence of chemoprophylaxis, in patients diagnosed outside the transmission area in Brazil

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brasil, Patrícia ^a,b   De Pina Costa, Anielle ^a,b   Pedro, Renata Saraiva ^a,b   Da Silveira Bressan, Clarisse ^a   Da Silva, Sidnei ^a,b   Tauil, Pedro Luiz ^c   Daniel Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu ^b,d  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^b MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INDONESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SOUTH AMERICA; TRAVEL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANTIMALARIALS; BRAZIL; CHEMOPREVENTION; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; MALARIA, VIVAX; TRAVEL;

EID: 79955815435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-122     Document Type: Article

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