First case of Plasmodium knowlesi infection in a Japanese traveller returning from Malaysia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tanizaki, Ryutaro ^a   Ujiie, Mugen ^a   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a   Iwagami, Moritoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Aki ^a   Kutsuna, Satoshi ^a   Takeshita, Nozomi ^a   Hayakawa, Kyoko ^a   Kanagawa, Shuzo ^a   Kano, Shigeyuki ^a   Ohmagari, Norio ^a  

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

Author keywords

Imported; Japan; Malaria; Mefloquine; Plasmodium knowlesi; Traveller

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MEFLOQUINE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIEMSA STAIN; HEADACHE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAYSIA; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE RATE; SCHIZONT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOKYO; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876101520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-128     Document Type: Article

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