The changing malaria landscape in Aseer region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: 2000-2015.

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Published in Malar J on November 08, 2016

Authors

Ali Mohamed Alshahrani1,2, Tarig M Abdelgader3,4, Ibrahim Saeed3,4, AbdulRhman Al-Akhshami3,4, Mohamed Al-Ghamdi4, Mohammed H Al-Zahrani5, Ibrahim El Hassan6, David Kyalo7, Robert W Snow7,8

Author Affiliations

1: Vector Control Administration, Aseer Health Affairs Directorate, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. alidoh@hotmail.com.
2: Aseer General Directorate of Health Affairs, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. alidoh@hotmail.com.
3: Vector Control Administration, Aseer Health Affairs Directorate, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
4: Aseer General Directorate of Health Affairs, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
5: Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
6: Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Jazan, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
7: Spatial Health Metrics Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
8: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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