Urban malaria in the Sahel: Prevalence and seasonality of presumptive malaria and parasitaemia at primary care level in Chad

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 204-210

  Othnigué, Nadjitolnan ^a,b   Wyss, Kaspar ^c   Tanner, Marcel ^c   Genton, Blaise ^c  

^a Ministry of Public Health   (Chad)

^b Centre de Support en Sante Internationale   (Chad)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case management; Chad; Diagnosis; Health services; Malaria; Sseasonality; Urban

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; MALARIA; SEASONALITY; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; CHAD; CLINICAL LABORATORY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHAD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEASONS; URBAN HEALTH;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33644990702     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01551.x     Document Type: Article

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