Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2018, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Pryce, Joseph ^a   Richardson, Marty ^a   Lengeler, Christian ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PYRETHROID;

ANEMIA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RISK; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLENOMEGALY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; INFANT; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85056108685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000363.pub3     Document Type: Review

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