Widespread distribution of insecticide-impregnated curtains reduces child mortality, prevalence and intensity of malaria infection, and malaria transmission in rural Burkina Faso

Parassitologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 377-381

  Diallo, D A ^a   Habluetzel, A ^b   Cuzin Ouattara, N ^a   Nebie I ^a   Sanogo, E ^a   Cousens, S N ^c   Esposito, F ^b,d  

^a Ctr Natl Lutte Contre le Paludisme   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d Dir Generale Cooperazione Sviluppo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Epidemiology; Insecticide treated fabrics; Malaria; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BURKINA FASO; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORTALITY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BURKINA FASO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0033181930     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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