Malaria in Sao Tome and Principe: Parasite prevalences and vector densities

Acta Tropica

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 185-193

  Pinto, João ^a   Sousa, Carla A ^a   Gil, Vilfrido ^b   Ferreira, Conceição ^b   Gonçalves, Luzia ^a   Lopes, Dinora ^a   Petrarca, Vincenzo ^c   Charlwood, J Derek ^a   Do Rosário, Virgílio E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b Centro Nacional de Endemias   (Sao Tome and Principe)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae s.s.; Bednets; FOREST cytoform; Island malaria; Prevalence; Sao Tome and Principe

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; MALARIA; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE;

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE;

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RAIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RAIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0034683246     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(00)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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