Elimination Therapy for the Endemic Malarias
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Elimination Therapy for the Endemic Malarias
Most malaria diagnosed outside endemic zones occurs in patients experiencing the consequences of what was likely a single infectious bite by an anopheline mosquito. A single species of parasite is nearly always involved and expert opinion on malaria chemotherapy uniformly prescribes species- and stage-specific treatments. However the vast majority of people experiencing malaria, those resident ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Infectious Disease Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1523-3847,1534-3146
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-012-0250-z