Correlation between rainfall and malaria in the dry zone of Sri Lanka

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 945-949

  Van Der Hoek, W ^a   Konradsen, F ^a   Perera, D ^b   Amerasinghe, P H ^c   Amerasinghe, F P ^c  

^a Intl Irrigat Mgmt Inst Hq   (Sri Lanka)

^b Anti Malaria Campaign ^*  (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; METEOROLOGY; MONITORING; PARASITE VECTOR; PREDICTION; SRI LANKA;

CLIMATE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; RAIN; SEASONS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 0031474093     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989760347     Document Type: Article

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