The spatial-temporal clustering of Plasmodium falciparum infection over eleven years in Gezira State, the Sudan

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mirghani, Samia E ^a   Nour, Bakri Y M ^a   Bushra, Sayed M ^a   Elhassan, Ibrahim M ^b,c   Snow, Robert W ^d,e   Noor, Abdisalan M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c JAZAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SUDAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; MALARIA; NOTE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SUDAN;

EID: 78650456044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-172     Document Type: Article

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