The epidemiology of malaria in Bolifamba, a rural community on the eastern slopes of Mount Cameroon: Seasonal variation in the parasitological indices of transmission

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-227

  Akenji, T Nkuo ^a   Ntonifor, N N ^a   Kimbi, H K ^a   Abongwa, E L ^a   Ching, J K ^a   Ndukum, M B ^a   Anong, D N ^a   Nkwescheu, A ^a   Songmbe, M ^a   Boyo, M G ^a   Ndamukong, K N ^a   Titanji, V P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PREVALENCE; RAIN; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 20244365332     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X29693     Document Type: Article

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