Imported malaria and dengue fever in returned travelers in Japan from 2005 to 2010

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 86-91

  Mizuno, Yasutaka ^a,c   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a   Kano, Shigeyuki ^a   Takasaki, Tomohiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c Department of Infection Control and Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dengue; Japanese travelers; Malaria; Returned travelers; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE PLUS PRIMAQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEFLOQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LIVER TOXICITY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; POST MALARIA NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADULT; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; JAPAN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863414173     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.02.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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