A method of active case detection to target reservoirs of asymptomatic malaria and gametocyte carriers in a rural area in Southern Province, Zambia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Stresman, Gillian H ^a   Kamanga, Aniset ^b   Moono, Petros ^b   Hamapumbu, Harry ^b   Mharakurwa, Sungano ^b   Kobayashi, Tamaki ^a   Moss, William J ^a   Shiff, Clive ^a  

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

^b Malaria Institute at Macha   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; ZAMBIA; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG COMBINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BLOOD; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77957265221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-265     Document Type: Article

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