Plasmodium knowlesi: The emerging zoonotic malaria parasite

Acta Tropica

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 191-201

  Antinori, Spinello ^a   Galimberti, Laura ^a   Milazzo, Laura ^a   Corbellino, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Macaca fascicularis; Plasmodium knowlesi; Southeast Asia; Therapy; Travellers

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE PLUS PRIMAQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

DISEASE TREATMENT; MALARIA; PARASITE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEVER; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INCIDENCE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALAYSIA; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SHOCK; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; BORNEO; CHLOROQUINE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TROPHOZOITES; ZOONOSES;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

MACACA FASCICULARIS; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84871688039     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.10.008     Document Type: Review

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