Malaria imported from Ghana by returning gold miners, China, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 864-867

  Li, Zhongjie ^a   Yang, Yichao ^b   Xiao, Ning ^a   Zhou, Sheng ^a   Lin, Kangming ^b   Wang, Duoquan ^a   Zhang, Qian ^a   Jiang, Weikang ^a   Li, Mei ^a   Feng, Xinyu ^a   Yu, Jianxin ^a   Ren, Xiang ^a   Lai, Shengjie ^a   Sun, Junling ^a   Fang, Zhongliao ^b   Hu, Wenbiao ^c   Clements, Archie C A ^d   Zhou, Xiaonong ^a   Yu, Hongjie ^a   Yang, Weizhong ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; GOLD;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILL; CHINA; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GHANA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CHILD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MINER; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GHANA; GOLD; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINERS; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928012074     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2105.141712     Document Type: Article

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