Evidence for a mass community effect of insecticide-treated bednets on the incidence of malaria on the Kenyan coast.

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Published in Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg on December 13, 2000

Authors

S C Howard1, J Omumbo, C Nevill, E S Some, C A Donnelly, R W Snow

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3FY, UK. sally.howard@ceid.ox.ac.uk

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