The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa since 1900

Nature

Volumn 550, Issue 7677, 2017, Pages 515-518

  Snow, Robert W ^a,b   Sartorius, Benn ^c   Kyalo, David ^a   Maina, Joseph ^a   Amratia, Punam ^a   Mundia, Clara W ^a   Bejon, Philip ^a,b   Noor, Abdisalan M ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CLIMATE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TRANSMISSION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DATASETS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 85032444651     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature24059     Document Type: Article

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