Tackling malaria today

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7667, 2008, Pages 435-437

  Lines, Jo ^a   Schapira, Allan ^b   Smith, Tom ^b  

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

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 50449087747     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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