Relationship Between Altitude and Intensity of Malaria Transmission in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Journal of medical entomology

• Publication date

  2003-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1603/0022-2585-40.5.706PMID 14596287
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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