An approach to model the costs and effects of case management of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in sub-saharan Africa.

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Published in Am J Trop Med Hyg on August 01, 2006

Authors

Fabrizio Tediosi1, Nicolas Maire, Thomas Smith, Guy Hutton, Jürg Utzinger, Amanda Ross, Marcel Tanner

Author Affiliations

1: Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland. Thomas.A.Smith@unibas.ch

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