To assess whether indoor residual spraying can provide additional protection against clinical malaria over current best practice of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets in The Gambia: Study protocol for a two-armed cluster-randomised trial

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pinder, Margaret ^a   Jawara, Musa ^b   Jarju, Lamin B S ^c   Kandeh, Ballah ^c   Jeffries, David ^b   Lluberas, Manuel F ^d   Mueller, Jenny ^b   Parker, David ^b   Bojang, Kalifa ^b   Conway, David J ^a,b   Lindsay, Steve W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c National Malaria Control Programme   (Gambia)

^d H D Hudson Manufacturing Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; PERMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPOROZOITE; TECHNIQUE; VECTOR CONTROL; AEROSOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL HEALTH CARE; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; AEROSOLS; BENCHMARKING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DDT; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEASONS;

EID: 79958165937     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-147     Document Type: Article

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