Does livestock protect from malaria or facilitate malaria prevalence? A cross-sectional study in endemic rural areas of Indonesia

Abstract Background Ever since it was discovered that zoophilic vectors can transmit malaria, zooprophylaxis has been used to prevent the disease. However, zoopotentiation has also been observed. Thus, the presence of livestock has been widely accepted as an important variable for the prevalence and...

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Main Authors: Hamzah Hasyim, Meghnath Dhimal, Jan Bauer, Doreen Montag, David A. Groneberg, Ulrich Kuch, Ruth Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:Malaria Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-018-2447-6