Malaria endemicity in an Orang Asli community in Pahang, Malaysia

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-66

  Kaur, Gurpreet ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALAYSIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALAYSIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SPLENOMEGALY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449198093     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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