The risk of imported malaria in security forces personnel returning from overseas missions in the context of prevention of re-introduction of malaria to Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND: Sri Lanka is a malaria-free country. However it remains surrounded by countries with endemic malaria transmission. Since the last indigenous case of malaria was reported in October 2012, only imported malaria cases have been diagnosed with 36 cases detected in 2015, which includes 17 cas...

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Autores principales: Fernando, Sumadhya Deepika, Dharmawardana, Priyani, Semege, Saveen, Epasinghe, Geetha, Senanayake, Niroshana, Rodrigo, Chaturaka, Premaratne, Risintha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1204-y

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