Malaria mortality in Venezuela: Focus on deaths due to Plasmodium vivax in children

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 94-101

  Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,c   Benítez, Jesús A ^b   Arria, Melissa ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b Ministry of Health   (Venezuela)

^c Collaborative Group of Clinical Infectious Diseases Research ^*  (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Children; Malaria; Mortality; Plasmodium vivax; South America

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VENEZUELA;

EID: 42049087650     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmm074     Document Type: Article

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