Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Demographic Profiles of Imported Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax Infections in Ontario, Canada (1990-2009)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Nelder, Mark P ^a   Russell, Curtis ^a   Williams, Dawn ^a   Johnson, Karen ^a   Li, Lennon ^a   Baker, Stacey L ^b   Marshall, Sean ^a   Bhanich Supapol, Wendy ^c   Pillai, Dylan R ^d   Ralevski, Filip ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MORBIDITY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAVEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84884779953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076208     Document Type: Article

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