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Jun 2019
10m 29s

Malaria

THOMAS WATCHMAN
About this episode

In this episode I cover malaria.

If you want to follow along with written notes on malaria go to http://zerotofinals.com/malaria or the infectious diseases section in the Zero to Finals medicine book.

This episode covers the types, life cycle, methods of infection, presentation, investigations, management and complications of malaria. We also cover malaria prophylaxis.

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

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