Malaria epidemics and interventions, Kenya, Burundi, southern Sudan, and Ethiopia, 1999-2004

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1477-1485

  Checchi, Francesco ^a,b   Cox, Jonathan ^b   Balkan, Suna ^c   Tamrat, Abiy ^c   Priotto, Gerardo ^a   Alberti, Kathryn P ^a   Zurovac, Dejan ^c,d,e   Guthmann, Jean Paul ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; QUININE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 33749996767     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1210.060540     Document Type: Review

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