Transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in urban Yaoundé, Cameroon, is seasonal and age-dependent

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-379

  van der Kolk, Mike ^a,b,c   Tebo, Anne Etti ^a   Nimpaye, Hermann ^a   Ndombol, Delphine Ngo ^a   Sauerwein, Robert W ^c   Eling, Wijnand M C ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Entomological inoculation rate; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Prevalence model

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CALCULATION; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAMETOCYTE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INOCULATION; INSECT BITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA; VOLUNTEER; ZOOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CAMEROON; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT VECTORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; URBAN HEALTH;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; INSECTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 19244365384     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)90059-9     Document Type: Article

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