Response to Malaria Epidemics in Africa

Actions should focus on early recognition of abnormal transmission and rapid deployment of mass drug administration.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2007-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1305.061333PMID 17553244PMCID 2738452
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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