Declining burden of malaria over two decades in a rural community of Muheza district, north-eastern Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ishengoma, Deus S ^a   Mmbando, Bruno P ^a   Segeja, Method D ^a   Alifrangis, Michael ^b,c   Lemnge, Martha M ^a   Bygbjerg, Ib C ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BED NET; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEVER; GAMETOCYTE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLENOMEGALY; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884312051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-338     Document Type: Article

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