High attack rate for malaria through irregular migration routes to a country on verge of elimination

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wickramage, Kolitha ^a   Premaratne, Risintha G ^b   Peiris, Sharika L ^a   Mosca, Davide ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Human smuggling; Irregular migrants; Malaria elimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; HUMAN TRAFFICKING; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIGRATION; PATHOGEN CLEARANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; SRI LANKA;

ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; FEMALE; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SRI LANKA; TRAVEL;

EID: 84881168509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-276     Document Type: Review

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