Mortality in a seven-and-a-half-year follow-up of a trial of insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Ghana

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 597-599

  Binka, F N ^a,b   Hodgson, A ^a   Adjuik, M ^a   Smith, T ^c  

^a NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Control; Ghana; Insecticide treated nets; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036881132     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90321-4     Document Type: Article

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