Malaria prevalence, risk factors and spatial distribution in a Hilly forest area of Bangladesh

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Haque, Ubydul ^a,b   Sunahara, Toshihiko ^b   Hashizume, Masahiro ^b   Shields, Timothy ^c   Yamamoto, Taro ^b   Haque, Rashidul ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BED NET; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOREST; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

BANGLADESH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79955402701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018908     Document Type: Article

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