Rural health centres, communities and malaria case detection in Zambia using mobile telephones: A means to detect potential reservoirs of infection in unstable transmission conditions

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kamanga, Aniset ^a   Moono, Petros ^a   Stresman, Gillian ^b   Mharakurwa, Sungano ^a   Shiff, Clive ^b  

^a Malaria Institute at Macha   (Zambia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL STAFF; MOBILE PHONE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZAMBIA; ZOONOSIS; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEASON; STANDARD; TIME;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANTIMALARIALS; CELLULAR PHONE; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77950798377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-96     Document Type: Article

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