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Malaria in Kenya's Western Highlands

Records from tea estates in the Kericho district in Kenya show that malaria reemerged in the 1980s. Renewed epidemic activity coincided with the emergence of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and may have been triggered by the failure of antimalarial drugs. Meteorologic changes, po...

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Autores principales: Shanks, G. Dennis, Hay, Simon I., Omumbo, Judy A., Snow, Robert W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16229773
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.041131