Measures of clinical malaria in field trials of interventions against Plasmodium falciparum

Malaria Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Smith, Thomas A ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DRUG EFFICACY; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SIMULATION; SYMPTOM; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249080804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-6-53     Document Type: Article

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