Malaria elimination in Asia-Pacific: an under-told story

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9726, 2010, Pages 1586-1587

  Hsiang, Michelle S ^a   Abeyasinghe, Rabindra ^b   Whittaker, Maxine ^c   Feachem, Richard GA ^a  

^a UCSF Global Health Sciences   (United States)

^b National Hospital Sri Lanka   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MALARIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 77951943225     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60350-9     Document Type: Note

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