A progressive declining in the burden of malaria in north-eastern Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mmbando, Bruno P ^a,b   Vestergaard, Lasse S ^b   Kitua, Andrew Y ^c   Lemnge, Martha M ^a   Theander, Thor G ^b   Lusingu, John P A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PARASITEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; AGE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOSQUITO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954769930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-216     Document Type: Article

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