Defining the malaria burden in Nchelenge District, northern Zambia using the World Health Organization malaria indicators survey

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nambozi, Michael ^a,b   Malunga, Phidelis ^a   Mulenga, Modest ^a   Van Geertruyden, Jean Pierre ^b   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^c,d  

^a Tropical Diseases Research Centre Ndola   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Children; Endemicity; Malaria indicator survey; Zambia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZAMBIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE;

ANEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84903395698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-220     Document Type: Review

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