Absence of malaria-specific mortality in children in an area of hyperendemic malaria

We conducted a prospective community-based malaria surveillance study on a cohort of children 50% in children aged 2–9 years) in Vanuatu, Melanesia, supported by a concurrent prospective descriptive study of malaria admissions to the local hospital. The incidence of clinical malaria in children

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Veröffentlicht in:	Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1997-09, Vol.91 (5), p.562-566
Hauptverfasser:	Maitland, K., Williams, T.N., Peto, T.E.A., Day, K.P., Clegg, J.B., Weatherall, D.J., Bowden, D.K.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Biological and medical sciences Child Child, Preschool children Cohort Studies Cross-Sectional Studies Endemic Diseases Female Follow-Up Studies Human protozoal diseases Humans Incidence Infant Infant, Newborn Infectious diseases Malaria Malaria, Falciparum - epidemiology Malaria, Falciparum - mortality Malaria, Vivax - epidemiology Malaria, Vivax - mortality Male Medical sciences Middle Aged morbidity mortality Parasitic diseases Plasmodium falciparum Plasmodium vivax Prevalence Prospective Studies Protozoal diseases Tropical medicine Vanuatu Vanuatu - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:	We conducted a prospective community-based malaria surveillance study on a cohort of children 50% in children aged 2–9 years) in Vanuatu, Melanesia, supported by a concurrent prospective descriptive study of malaria admissions to the local hospital. The incidence of clinical malaria in children
ISSN:	0035-9203 1878-3503
DOI:	10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90026-2