Severe malaria in Burkina Faso: Urban and rural environment

Parassitologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 251-254

  Modiano, D ^a,b,c   Sirima, B S ^d   Sawadogo, A ^e   Sanou, I ^e   Pare J ^e   Konate A ^d   Pagnoni, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Dir Gen Cooperazione allo Sviluppo   (Italy)

^d MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ   (Burkina Faso)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE YALGADO OUÉDRAOGO   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Clinical picture; Severe malaria; Urban and rural areas; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0033182864     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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