Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 564-570

  Shanks, G Dennis ^a,b   Hay, Simon I ^c   Bradley, David J ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CINCHONA EXTRACT; QUININE;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES SUNDAICUS; AUTOPSY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 49549087924     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70130-0     Document Type: Review

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