Plasmodium vivaxMalaria Relapses after Primaquine Prophylaxis
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Plasmodium vivax Malaria Relapses after Primaquine Prophylaxis
Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2006 1795 contacts with clandestine gold panners, mainly Brazilian illegal residents. This population, in which malaria incidence is almost impossible to evaluate, comes from Amapa State, where the incidence of malaria is increasing (5). In 2003, 60.9% of patients with malaria cases at Cayenne Hospital had a Brazilian na...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid1211.060613