Lessons on malaria control in the ethnic minority regions in Northern Myanmar along the China border, 2007-2014

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Ru Bo ^a   Dong, Jia Qiang ^b   Xia, Zhi Gui ^a   Cai, Tao ^b   Zhang, Qing Feng ^a   Zhang, Yao ^b   Tian, Yang Hui ^b   Sun, Xiao Ying ^b   Zhang, Guang Yun ^b   Li, Qing Pu ^b   Xu, Xiao Yu ^b   Li, Jia Yin ^b   Zhang, Jun ^b  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Yunnan Representative Office   (China)

Author keywords

Ethnic minority regions; Malaria control; Northern myanmar

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE PLUS PRIMAQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEVER; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYANMAR; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991660160     PISSN: 20955162     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0191-0     Document Type: Article

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