Malaria risk assessment and preventive recommendations: a new approach for the Canadian military.
Western militaries deploying to international locations are often confronted with the threat of malaria. For the Canadian military, the consequent response has been prescriptive-any risk of malaria warrants use of personal protective measures and chemoprophylaxis. In reality, however, malaria risk i...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 172; no. 12; pp. 1250 - 1254 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2007
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