Venezuela's failure in malaria control

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9944, 2014, Pages 663-664

  Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a   Paniz Mondolfi, Alberto E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; LEISHMANIASIS; LETTER; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVENESS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VENEZUELA; GROUPS BY AGE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84906705996     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61389-1     Document Type: Letter

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