Patterns of malaria indices across three consecutive seasons in children in a highly endemic area of West Africa: A three times-repeated cross-sectional study

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ardiet, Denis Luc ^b   Graz, Bertrand ^a,b   Szeless, Thomas ^a   Mauris, Anne ^a   Falquet, Jacques ^b   Doumbo, Ogobara K ^c   Dolo, Amagana ^c   Guindo, Ousmane ^c   Sissoko, Mahamadou S ^c   Konaré, Moussa ^c   Motamed, Sandrine ^a   Rougemont, André C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b Association Mali Genève Community Health Geneva   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endemicity; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Malaria disease; Malaria indices; Plasmodium infection; Season

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AFRICA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PARASITE; CELL VOLUME; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL STRATEGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPLENOMEGALY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITE LOAD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SEASON;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITE LOAD; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 84904057717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-199     Document Type: Article

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