Impact of Community-Based Larviciding on the Prevalence of Malaria Infection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Maheu Giroux, Mathieu ^a   Castro, Marcia C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BAYES THEOREM; BED NET; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY BASED MICROBIAL LARVICIDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HOUSE PROOFING; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTECTION; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881496167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071638     Document Type: Article

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