Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 13-21 , January 2010

Malaria prevention behaviour and risk awareness in French adult travellers

  • Thierry Pistone

      Affiliations

    • Service de Médecine Interne et des Maladies Tropicales, Hôpital St-André, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
    • The first two authors contributed equally to the study and to the preparation of the manuscript.
    • ,
  • Khaled Ezzedine

      Affiliations

    • Service de Médecine Interne et des Maladies Tropicales, Hôpital St-André, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
    • UMR U557 INSERM, University of Paris XIII, Bobigny, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Service de Dermatologie, Hôpital Saint André, CHU Bordeaux, 1, rue Jean Burguet, 33075 Bordeaux, France. Tel.: +33 5 56 79 49 65; fax: +33 5 56 79 58 80.
    • The first two authors contributed equally to the study and to the preparation of the manuscript.
    • ,
  • Anne-Françoise Gaudin

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire GlaxoSmithKline, Marly-le-Roi, France
    • ,
  • Serge Hercberg

      Affiliations

    • UMR U557 INSERM, University of Paris XIII, Bobigny, France
    • ,
  • Gaëlle Nachbaur

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire GlaxoSmithKline, Marly-le-Roi, France
    • ,
  • Denis Malvy

      Affiliations

    • Service de Médecine Interne et des Maladies Tropicales, Hôpital St-André, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Received 23 June 2009 ,Revised 22 October 2009 ,Accepted 27 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.10.005

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 13-21 , January 2010

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