Imported malaria cases in Okinawa prefecture, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-35

  Higa, Futoshi ^a   Tateyama, Masao ^a   Tasato, Daisuke ^a   Karimata, Yosuke ^a   Nakamura, Hideta ^a   Miyagi, Kazuya ^a   Haranaga, Shusaku ^a   Hirata, Tetsuo ^a   Hokama, Akira ^a   Cash, Haley L ^a   Toma, Hiromu ^b   Fujita, Jiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMPORT DISEASE; JAPAN; LIVER INJURY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VOMITING; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874777993     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.66.32     Document Type: Article

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