Infection importation: A key challenge to malaria elimination on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bradley, John ^a   Monti, Feliciano ^b   Rehman, Andrea M ^a   Schwabe, Christopher ^c   Vargas, Daniel ^b   Garcia, Guillermo ^b   Hergott, Dianna ^b   Riloha, Matilde ^d   Kleinschmidt, Immo ^a  

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

^b Medical Care Development International   (Equatorial Guinea)

^c Medical Care Development International   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Equatorial Guinea)

Author keywords

Elimination; Importation; Malaria; Migration; Travel

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEIGHBORHOOD; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SHIP; TRAVEL; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924062652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0579-5     Document Type: Article

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