Malaria infection among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in six Rwandan districts

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 681-688

  Van Geertruyden, Jean Pierre ^a   Ntakirutimana, Dorothee ^b   Erhart, Annette ^a   Rwagacondo, Claude ^a,c   Kabano, Augustin ^d   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Programme Nationale Lutte Contre la Tuberculose   (Burundi)

^c Prog Natl Lutte Contre le P   (Rwanda)

^d UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Bed nets; Cross sectional; KAP survey; Malaria; Pregnancy; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

IMPREGNATED BEDNET; MALARIA; PREGNANCY;

ARTICLE; BED NET; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; PARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BEDDING AND LINENS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RWANDA;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; RWANDA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 21644458269     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01431.x     Document Type: Article

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