Meteorologic influences on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the highland tea estates of Kericho, western Kenya

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1404-1408

  Shanks, G Dennis ^a,f   Hay, Simon I ^b,c   Stern, David I ^d   Biomndo, Kimutai ^e   Snow, Robert W ^b,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Brooke Bond Central Hospital   (Kenya)

^f Armed Forces Inst of the Med Sci   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALARIA; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0036913275     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0812.020077     Document Type: Article

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