A malaria risk map of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ferrari, Giovanfrancesco ^a,b   Ntuku, Henry M ^a,b,c   Schmidlin, Sandro ^a,b   Diboulo, Eric ^a,b   Tshefu, Antoinette K ^c   Lengeler, Christian ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Kinshasa School of Public Health Democratic   (Congo)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Democratic Republic of Congo; DRC; Kinshasa; Malaria; Mosquito nets

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARASITE CONTROL; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; FEMALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84954088173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-1074-8     Document Type: Article

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