Malaria, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia, 2001-2006

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1336-1337

  Olana, Dereje ^a,b   Chibsa, Sheleme ^a,c   Teshome, Dawit ^a   Mekasha, Addis ^a   Graves, Patricia M ^d   Reithinger, Richard ^a,c  

^a Oromia Regional Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c US Agency for International Development   (Ethiopia)

^d CARTER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL;

CHILD; CONSULTATION; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OUTPATIENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS;

EID: 79959915147     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.100942     Document Type: Letter

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