Epidemiology of malaria in the Papua New Guinean highlands

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1181-1191

  Betuela, Inoni ^a,b   Maraga, Seri ^a   Hetzel, Manuel W ^a,c   Tandrapah, Tony ^a   Sie, Albert ^a   Yala, Simon ^d   Kundi, Julius ^d   Siba, Peter ^a   Reeder, John C ^e   Mueller, Ivo ^a,b,f  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Malaria Surveillance and Control Unit   (Papua New Guinea)

^e BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Highlands malaria; Malaria; Paludisme; Papua New Guinea; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MALARIA; PROTOZOAN; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; UPLAND REGION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAVEL;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; ODDS RATIO; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84866307406     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03062.x     Document Type: Article

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