Irrational use of antimalarial drugs in rural areas of eastern Pakistan: A random field study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Khan, Shafaat Yar ^a   Khan, Ahmad ^a   Arshad, Muhammad ^a   Tahir, Hafiz Muhammad ^a   Mukhtar, Muhammad Khalid ^a   Ahmad, Khawaja Raees ^a   Arshad, Najma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Antimalarial drugs; Blood Examination Rate (BER); Diagnosis; Eastern Pakistan; Malaria; Mosquito vectors; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO; PAKISTAN; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CULICIDAE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868243852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-941     Document Type: Article

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