Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) II: Epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Shr Jie ^a   Lengeler, Christian ^a   Mtasiwa, Deodatus ^b   Mshana, Thomas ^c   Manane, Lusinge ^d   Maro, Godson ^d   Marcel Tanner, S ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Dar es Salaam City Council   (Tanzania)

^c Medical Laboratory Scientists Association of Tanzania   (Tanzania)

^d MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; ANIMAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEWBORN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33745869474     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-28     Document Type: Article

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