Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Rainy Season, Artibonite Valley, Haiti, 2006

Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Rainy Season, Artibonite Valley, Haiti, 2006

We conducted a population-based survey to estimate the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection among persons older than 1 month in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti during the high malaria transmission season in 2006. Results from PCR for 714 persons showed a prevalence of 3.1% for P. falciparum...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thomas P. Eisele, Joseph Keating, Adam Bennett, Berlin Londono, Dawn Johnson, Christina Lafontant, Donald J. Krogstad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Malaria
prevalence
Haiti
community survey
dispatch
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/10/07-0567_article

Internet

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/10/07-0567_article

Similar Items