Plasmodium knowlesi in a traveller returning to New Zealand

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 144-148

  Hoosen, Anwar ^a   Shaw, Marc T M ^b,c  

^a Travel Clinic North Shore   (New Zealand)

^b Worldwise Travellers Health and Vaccination Centre   (New Zealand)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case report; Malaria; Plasmodium knowlesi; Southeast Asia; Traveller

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ATAVAQUONE; BENFLUMETOL; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROGUANIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; FEVER; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MYALGIA; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 79958802032     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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