Delay in diagnosis: malaria in a returning traveller
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Plasmodium vivax malaria in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece, August 2011.
In August 2011, a Plasmodium vivax malaria infection was diagnosed in a Romanian traveller returning from Greece. This case together with several reports over the past decade of autochthonous cases in Greece highlight that malaria should be considered as differential diagnosis in symptomatic travellers returning from this country. Travellers may serve as sentinels of emerging vector-borne disea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.090171