Journal article
The impact of urbanization and population density on childhood Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence rates in Africa
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Although malaria has been traditionally regarded as less of a problem in urban areas compared to neighbouring rural areas, the risk of malaria infection continues to exist in densely populated, urban areas of Africa. Despite the recognition that urbanization influences the epidemiology of malaria, there is little consensus on urbanization relevant for malaria parasite mapping. Previous studies examining the relationship between urbanization and malaria transmission have used pr...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Overseas Programme Strategic Award
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Funding agency for:
Kabaria, C
Grant:
084538
+ Wellcome Trust
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Funding agency for:
Kabaria, C
Noor, A
Snow, R
Grant:
084538
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103602
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 49
- Pages:
- 1-10
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-13
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:673438
- UUID:
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uuid:2403c758-e983-416f-b64c-8e94b08e8e37
- Local pid:
- pubs:673438
- Source identifiers:
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673438
- Deposit date:
- 2017-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- © Kabaria, et al 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Kabaria, et al 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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