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Mass radical treatment of a group of foreign workers to mitigate the risk of re-establishment of malaria in Sri Lanka
BACKGROUND: Following malaria elimination, Sri Lanka was free from indigenous transmission for six consecutive years, until the first introduced case was reported in December 2018. The source of transmission (index case) was a member of a group of 32 migrant workers from India and the location of tr...
Autores principales: | Marasinghe, Manonath M., Karunasena, Vissundara M., Seneratne, Arundika S., Herath, Hema D. B., Fernando, Deepika, Wickremasinghe, Rajitha, Mendis, Kamini N., Ranaweera, Dewanee |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7517794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32977809 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03419-x |
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