Malaria: Knowledge and prevention practices among school adolescents in a coastal comm unity in Calabar, Nigeria

African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Udonwa, Ndifreke E ^a   Gyuse, Abraham N ^a   Etokidem, Aniekan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Coastal community; Malaria; Nigeria; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861888681     PISSN: 20712928     EISSN: 20712936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/phcfm.v2i1.103     Document Type: Article

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