Cross-Border Malaria: A Major Obstacle for Malaria Elimination

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-107

  Wangdi, Kinley ^a,b   Gatton, Michelle L ^c   Kelly, Gerard C ^a   Clements, Archie C A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Phuentsholing General Hospital   (Bhutan)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

International borders; Malaria; Migration; Plasmodium species; Population movement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNIC GROUP; FEVER; FOREST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MIGRANT WORKER; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POPULATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIOECONOMICS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; MIGRATION; TRANSMISSION;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ;

DISEASE ERADICATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; MALARIA;

EID: 84938086405     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.apar.2015.04.002     Document Type: Article

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