Micro-geographic risk factors for malarial infection

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Myers, Ward P ^a,b   Myers, Andrea P ^b   Cox Singh, Janet ^c   Lau, Hui C ^c   Mokuai, Benny ^d   Malley, Richard ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^d Ambunti Health Centre   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 61649085945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-27     Document Type: Article

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