Global malaria eradication and the importance of Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology in Africa

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Snow, Robert W ^a,b  

^a Department of Public Health Research ^*  (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Eradication; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

AFRICA; BED NET; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84924034662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-014-0254-7     Document Type: Note

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