Malaria: An emerging and re-emerging global plague

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 325-331

  Campbell, Carlos C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Emerging malarial trend; Malaria; Malaria epidemiology; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; VACCINE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; MALARIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT;

AFRICA; ASIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030884552     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00065-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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