Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 161-168 , May 2010

Malaria and travellers visiting friends and relatives

  • Androula Pavli

      Affiliations

    • Office for Travel Medicine, Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece
    • ,
  • Helena C. Maltezou

      Affiliations

    • Department for Interventions in Health-Care Facilities, Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 3-5 Agrafon Street, Athens 15123, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +30 210 5212 175, fax: +30 210 5212 177.

Received 20 October 2009 ,Revised 12 January 2010 ,Accepted 20 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.01.003

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 161-168 , May 2010

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