Imported parasitic infections in Tasmania
Goldsmid, J.M.
Medical Journal of Australia 2(7): 338-339
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X PMID: 390340 Document Number: 142455
The parasitic infections imported into Tasmania, Australia, by travellers or immigrants are listed. A case of Ancylostoma duodenale infection probably contracted in North Africa and one of Schistosoma mansoni infection in a Rhodesian African are highlighted. The parasitic infections imported into Tasmania, Australia, by travellers or immigrants are listed. A case of Plasmodium vivax malaria in a visitor to Papua New Guinea who had taken prophylactic chloroquine is highlighted.