Malaria in a holoendemic area of Burkina Faso: A cross-sectional study

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 596-599

  Stich, August ^a,b   Oster, Nadja ^a,c   Abdel Aziz, Inas Z ^a,d   Stieglbauer, Gabriele ^a   Coulibaly, Boubacar ^e   Wickert, Hannes ^a   McLean, Jeremy ^a   Kouyaté, Bocar A ^e   Becher, Heiko ^a   Lanzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Medical Mission Hospital   (Germany)

^c Cairo University ^*  (Germany)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e Centre de Recherche en Santé À Nouna   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPLENOMEGALY; UNIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645458066     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0104-9     Document Type: Article

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