Malaria epidemiology in the Ahafo area of Ghana

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Asante, Kwaku P ^a   Zandoh, Charles ^a   Dery, Dominic B ^a   Brown, Charles ^b   Adjei, George ^a   Antwi Dadzie, Yaw ^c   Adjuik, Martin ^d   Tchum, Kofi ^a   Dosoo, David ^a   Amenga Etego, Seeba ^a   Mensah, Christine ^e   Owusu Sekyere, Kwabena B ^c   Anderson, Chris ^c   Krieger, Gary ^f   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c Newmont Ghana Gold Limited C825   (Ghana)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^e HealthLink Consulting   (Ghana)

^f Newfields 730 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GHANA; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MINING; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FAMILY HEALTH; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960851380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-211     Document Type: Article

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