| Document ID (ISN) | 66494 |
| CIS number |
96-1095 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
Revista CIPA |
| Year |
1996 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Silva A.A.M., de Brito A.M. |
| Title |
Malaria control by the nursing staff of Petrobrás Amazônia |
| Original title |
Combate à malária das equipes de enfermagem da Petrobrás Amazônia [in Portuguese] |
| Bibliographic information |
Feb. 1996, Vol.17, No.195, p.76-79. 11 ref. |
| Abstract |
This article describes the malaria prevention efforts of the occupational nursing team of a Brazilian petroleum company active in the Amazon basin. Contents: general characteristics of malaria in Brazil; natural transmission of the disease; endemicity, incubation period, transmissibility, susceptibility and resistance; clinical picture; control measures in the oil terminal port (measures connected to the person and to the environment); nursing activities in the oil terminal port; the prevention experience until now. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
Brazil; petroleum and natural gas industry; malaria; tropical diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
industrial nurses; infectious diseases |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Brazil |
| Subject(s) |
Medicine, hygiene and first aid
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Biological hazards
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Petroleum and natural gas industry
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