Epidemiology of malaria in the Amazon basin of Ecuador

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-28

  San Sebastián, Miguel ^a   Játiva, Ricardo ^b   Goicolea, Isabel ^a  

^a Inst Epidemiol/Salud Comunitaria   (Ecuador)

^b Nuevo Rocafuerte   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; MALARIA; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECUADOR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR;

EID: 0342905066     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892000000100004     Document Type: Article

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