Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece, August 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 35, 2011, Pages

  Florescu, S A ^a,b   Popescu, C P ^a,b,c   Calistru, P ^a,b   Ceausu, E ^a,b   Nica, M ^a,b   Toderan, A ^a   Zaharia, M ^a   Parola, P ^c,d,e  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; DOXYCYCLINE; PRIMAQUINE; PROTOZOAL DNA; QUININE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DRUG RESPONSE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GREECE; HEMATOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIGRANT WORKER; MYALGIA; NAMED GROUPS OF PERSONS; PALPATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; RELAPSE; RELATIVE; ROMANIA; ROMANIAN TRAVELLER; SCHIZONT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TROPHOZOITE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 80052702460     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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