Clinical situation of endemic malaria in Yemen

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 551-558

  Al Mekhlafi, Abdulsalam M Q ^a   Mahdy, Mohammed A K ^a,b   Azazy, Ahmed A ^b   Fong, M Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650825704     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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