Changing patterns of clinical malaria since 1965 among a tea estate population located in the Kenyan highlands.

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The changing epidemiology of clinical malaria since 1965 among hospitalized patients was studied at a group of tea estates in the western highlands of Kenya. These data indicate recent dramatic increases in the numbers of malaria admissions (6.5 to 32.5% of all admissions), case fatality (1.3 to 6%) and patients originating from low-risk, highland areas (34 to 59%). Climate change, environmental management, population migration, and breakdown in health service provision seem unlikely explanat...

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Authors: Shanks, G; Biomndo, K; Hay, S; Snow, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 253-255
• Publication date: 2000-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(00)90310-9
• EISSN: 1878-3503
• ISSN: 0035-9203
• Language: English
• Keywords: Kenya; Tea; Humans; Incidence; Malaria, Falciparum; Altitude; Drug Resistance; Hospitalization; Prevalence