The Internet: A valuable tool for Roll Back Malaria

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 159-161

  Utzinger, Jürg ^a   Tanner, Marcel ^a   Singer, Burton H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; INVESTMENT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; SHORT SURVEY; TECHNOLOGY; TRAINING;

EID: 0035305799     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(00)01878-X     Document Type: Review

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