Malaria in a tertiary hospital in Singapore - Clinical presentation, treatment and outcome: An eleven year retrospective review

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 738-744

  Chung, Shimin Jasmine ^a   Low, Jenny Guek Hong ^a   Wijaya, Limin ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Malaria Complications Outcome Singapore

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PRIMAQUINE; SCHIZONTOCIDAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINGAPORE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITEMIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIMAQUINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84916204804     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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