Primary infection by Plasmodium falciparum or P. vivax in a cohort of Javanese migrants to Indonesian Papua.
The clinical and parasitological characteristics of the first naturally acquired malarial infection have rarely been documented in humans. When 243 migrants from non-endemic Java were followed from the day of their arrival in Indonesian Papua, 217 (89%) were found to become infected with Plasmodium...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2003
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