Estimating the burden of malaria: The need for improved surveillance

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mueller, Ivo ^a,b   Slutsker, Laurence ^c   Tanner, Marcel ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA;

HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84855162389     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001144     Document Type: Article

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