Imported malaria in a cosmopolitan European city: a mirror image of the world epidemiological situation.

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Published in Malar J on April 08, 2008

Authors

Juan Pablo Millet1, Patricia Garcia de Olalla, Paloma Carrillo-Santisteve, Joaquim Gascón, Begoña Treviño, José Muñoz, Jordi Gómez I Prat, Juan Cabezos, Anna González Cordón, Joan A Caylà

Author Affiliations

1: Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Pza Lesseps, 1, 08023 Barcelona, Spain. jmillet@aspb.es

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