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Malaria Survey in Mumbai, India

September 1, 2011 by Malaria Q&A

QUESTION:

I want the past year’s malaria survey in Mumbai and other states.

ANSWER:

The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, recently published an article summarising the mortality of malaria in India. The citation for the article is as follows:

Dhingra, Jha, Sharma, Cohen, Jotkar, Rodriguez, Bassani, Suraweera, Laxminarayan and Peto (2010), ‘Adult and child mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey’, The Lancet, 376: 1768-1774.

A slightly older article (from 2007) discusses the burden of malaria in India:

Kumar, Valecha, Jain and Dash (2007), ‘Burden of malaria in India: A retrospective and prospective view’, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77: 69-78.

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, India, malaria burden, malaria mortality, Mumbai, The Lancet

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