Effects of a malaria elimination program: a retrospective study of 623 cases from 2008 to 2013 in a Chinese county hospital near the China–Myanmar border

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-8

  Wang, Xinyu ^a   Yang, Linlin ^b   Jiang, Tao ^b   Zhang, Bingyan ^a   Wang, Shuqing ^b   Wu, Xingfen ^b   Wang, Tianying ^b   Li, Yanlin ^b   Liu, Min ^b   Peng, Quanbang ^b   Zhang, Wenhong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The People's Hospital of Tengchong County   (China)

Author keywords

China; imported malaria; malaria elimination strategy; migrant labor; Myanmar

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MYANMAR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84969547622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2016.6     Document Type: Article

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