Paediatric malaria in Greece in the era of global population mobility

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 178-180

  Maltezou, Helena C ^a   Tsolia, Maria ^b   Polymerou, Ioannis ^c   Theodoridou, Maria ^b  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Greece; Immigrants; Malaria; Travel

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; JAUNDICE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYALGIA; PALLOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPLENOMEGALY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRAVEL; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALARIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84878550671     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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