Associations of peak shifts in age-prevalence for human malarias with bednet coverage

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-6

  Smith, T ^a,b   Hii, J L K ^a,c   Genton, B ^a,b   Muller I ^b   Booth, M ^b   Gibson, N ^a   Narara, A ^a   Alpers, M P ^a  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age; Bednets; Endemicity; Entomological inoculation rates; Malaria; Papua New Guinea; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium malariae; Plasmodium vivax; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035723808     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90314-1     Document Type: Article

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