Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 368-372 , November 2008

Travelers' risk of malaria by destination country: A study from Japan

  • Yuki Tada

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan
    • ,
  • Nobuhiko Okabe

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan
    • ,
  • Mikio Kimura

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan
    • Shin-Yamanote Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Suwa-cho 3-6-1, Higashi-Murayama, Tokyo 189-0021, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Shin-Yamanote Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Suwa-cho 3-6-1, Higashi-Murayama, Tokyo 189-0021, Japan. Tel.: +81 42 391 1425; fax: +81 42 391 5760.

Received 30 July 2008 ,Accepted 4 August 2008.

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PII: S1477-8939(08)00121-X

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.08.002

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 368-372 , November 2008

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