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Environmental risk factors for clinical malaria: A case-control study in the Grau region of Peru

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dc.contributor.author Guthmann, J.
dc.contributor.author Hall, A.
dc.contributor.author Jaffar, S.
dc.contributor.author Palacios, A.
dc.contributor.author Lines, J.
dc.contributor.author Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T19:54:10Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T19:54:10Z
dc.date.issued 2001
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12458
dc.description.abstract The role of environmental risk factors in clinical malaria has been studied mainly in Africa and Asia, few investigations have been carried out in Latin America. Field observations in northern coastal Peru, where the prevalence of malaria is high during the agricultural season, suggested that the risk of disease varied according to the characteristics of the house and the house environment. Environmental determinants of the risk of clinical malaria were therefore investigated through a case-control study: 323 clinical cases of malaria, recruited through community-based active case-finding, and 969 age-, sex- and village-matched controls were recruited into the study over a period of 12 months ending June 1997. Residual spraying of houses in the previous 6 months, living more than 100 m from a canal, a level of education equal to primary school or above and working in agriculture conferred significant protection from the risk of developing clinical malaria. The presence of spaces between the wall and roof in the subject's bedroom (eaves) and a house aged >4 years statistically significantly increased the risk of disease. Based on these results we discuss possible control measures for malaria in this area of the country. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Oxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject malaria en_US
dc.subject risk factors en_US
dc.subject case-control study en_US
dc.subject environment en_US
dc.subject housing en_US
dc.subject occupation en_US
dc.subject education en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.title Environmental risk factors for clinical malaria: A case-control study in the Grau region of Peru en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90084-7
dc.relation.issn 1878-3503


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