Malaria epidemiology and economics: The effect of delayed immune acquisition on the cost-effectiveness of insecticide-treated bednets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1384, 1999, Pages 827-835

  Guyatt, H L ^a   Snow, R W ^a,b   Evans, D B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bednets; Control; Cost effectiveness; Epidemiology; Malaria; Mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033614335     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0434     Document Type: Article

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