Eritrean and Sudanese migrants presenting with malaria in Israel

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 303-305

  Saidel Odes, Lisa ^a   Riesenberg, Klaris ^a   Schlaeffer, Francisc ^a   Smolyakov, Rozalia ^a   Kafka, Mike ^a   Borer, Abraham ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eritrea; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Sudan

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CHILL; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ERITREA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MYALGIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUDAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 82755177832     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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