Malaria elimination trend from a hypo-endemic unstable active focus in southern Iran: Predisposing climatic factors

Pathogens and Global Health

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 358-365

  Moemenbellah Fard, M D ^a   Saleh, V ^a   Banafshi, O ^b   Dabaghmanesh, T ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Climate; Elimination; Iran; Malaria; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLIMATE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; SCALE UP; SCHOOL CHILD; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLIMATE; COINFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE ERADICATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870381659     PISSN: 20477724     EISSN: 20477732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2047773212Y.0000000049     Document Type: Article

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