Home-based management of malaria in the era of urbanisation

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9675, 2009, Pages 1582-1584

  Källander, Karin ^a,b   Nsungwa Sabiiti, Jesca ^a,b,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOME CARE; MALARIA; MONOTHERAPY; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 65449172008     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60359-7     Document Type: Note

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