Malaria prevalence and morbidity among children reporting at health facilities in Nouakchott, Mauritania
- 1 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 105 (12), 727-733
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.09.004
Abstract
Although malaria has become a serious public health problem in Mauritania since the late 1990s, few documented data on its epidemiology exist. The objective of this study was to assess the morbidity of clinical malaria among children in Nouakchott.Keywords
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