Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection in rainy season, Artibonite Valley, Haiti, 2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1494-1496

  Eisele, Thomas P ^a   Keating, Joseph ^a   Bennett, Adam ^a   Londono, Berlin ^a   Johnson, Dawn ^b   Lafontant, Christina ^b   Krogstad, Donald J ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hospital Albert Schweitzer   (Haïti)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 35548994598     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1310.070567     Document Type: Article

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