Epidemiologic investigations of a malaria outbreak in northern Delhi area

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 216-220

  Ansari, M A ^a   Sharma, Y D ^b   Roy, Arati ^a   Biswas, Sukla ^a   Sharma, P K ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c Municipal Corporation of Delhi   (India)

Author keywords

Anopheles culicifacies; Anopheles stephensi; Chloroquine resistant strains; Malaria outbreak; Molecular typing of Plasmodium falciparum strains; Serology; Susceptibility to insecticides

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0035754658     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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