Case report: Imported Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in a French tourist returning from Thailand

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 535-538

  Berry, Antoine ^a,b   Iriart, Xavier ^a,b   Wilhelm, Nathalie ^c   Valentin, Alexis ^a,b   Cassaing, Sophie ^a,b   Witkowski, Benoit ^d   Benoit Vical, Françoise ^d   Menard, Sandie ^a,b   Olagnier, David ^a,b   Fillaux, Judith ^a   Sire, Stephane ^c   Le Coustumier, Alain ^c   Magnaval, Jean François ^a  

^a CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CHG de Cahors   (France)

^d LCC LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE DE COORDINATION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PROTOZOAL DNA; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMPORT DISEASE; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THAILAND; TOURISM; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACACA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; TRAVEL;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; FRANCE; HUMANS; MACACA; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; THAILAND; TRAVEL;

EID: 79958020114     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0622     Document Type: Article

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