Environmental and entomological risk factors for the development of clinical malaria among children on the Kenyan coast

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-385

  Snow, R W ^a,b,d   Peshu, N ^a   Forster, D ^a,b   Bomu, G ^a   Mitsanze, E ^a   Ngumbao, E ^a   Chisengwa, R ^a   Armstrong Schellenberg, J R M ^c   Hayes, R J ^c   Newbold, C I ^b   Marsh, K ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Children; Clinical disease; Kenya; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; INSECTICIDE;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK FACTOR; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 13144295016     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)91056-2     Document Type: Article

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