Marked decline in malaria prevalence among pregnant women and their offspring from 1996 to 2010 on the South Kenyan Coast

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1129-1134

  Kalayjian, Benjamin C ^a   Malhotra, Indu ^a   Mungai, Peter ^a   Holding, Penny ^a   King, Christopher L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DELIVERY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890365683     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0250     Document Type: Article

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