Population hemoglobin mean and anemia prevalence in Papua New Guinea: New metrics for defining malaria endemicity?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Senn, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Maraga, Seri ^a   Sie, Albert ^a   Rogerson, Stephen J ^b   Reeder, John C ^d   Siba, Peter ^a   Mueller, Ivo ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPLENOMEGALY;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949686249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009375     Document Type: Article

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