Spleen rates and infant parasite rates as surveillance tool for malaria control in remote hard to reach areas of central India

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shukla, Manmohan ^a   Singh, Neeru ^a,b   Singh, Mrigendra P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

BLOOD SMEAR; CHILL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; MALARIA CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REVIEW; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SPLENOMEGALY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755196695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-381     Document Type: Review

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