Plasmodium falciparum spatial analysis, western Kenya highlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1571-1577

  Munyekenye, Otsyula G ^a   Githeko, Andrew K ^a   Zhou, Guofa ^b   Mushinzimana, Emmanuel ^a   Minakawa, Noboru ^b,c   Yan, Guiyun ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; GAMETOCYTE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITE DENSITY; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 25644448176     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1110.050106     Document Type: Article

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