Is housing quality associated with malaria incidence among young children and mosquito vector numbers? Evidence from Korogwe, Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Jenny X ^a   Bousema, Teun ^b,c   Zelman, Brittany ^a   Gesase, Samwel ^d   Hashim, Ramadhan ^d   Maxwell, Caroline ^e   Chandramohan, Daniel ^b   Gosling, Roly ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; TANZANIA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84895511156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087358     Document Type: Article

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