Geophagy among school children in Western Kenya
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Malaria morbidity among school children living in two areas of contrasting transmission in western Kenya.
Research in malaria-endemic areas is usually focused on malaria during early childhood. Less is known about malaria among older school age children. The incidence of clinical attacks of malaria was monitored, using active case detection in primary schools, in two areas of western Kenya that differ in the intensity of transmission. Clinical malaria was more common in schools in the Nandi highlan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and International Health
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1360-2276,1365-3156
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-345.x