Malaria- a major health problem within an oil palm plantation around Popondetta, Papua New Guinea

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Pluess, Bianca ^a   Mueller, Ivo ^b   Levi, Damien ^c   King, Graham ^c   Smith, Thomas A ^a   Lengeler, Christian ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c Higaturu Oil Palms   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; RAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLANTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; SPLENOMEGALY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649144194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-56     Document Type: Article

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