Publications
| malaria transmission in two rural communities in the forest zone of ghana. | malaria transmission was assessed in two rural communities, kona and afamanaso in sekyere south district, ashanti region, in the forest zone of ghana to provide baseline data for ongoing clinical studies and the evaluation of the effect of interventions. altogether, 3,479 anopheles gambiae and 1,157 anopheles funestus were caught by human landing catches. sporozoite rates determined by either microscopy of salivary glands or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) for plasmodium falciparum in ... | 2010 | 21153839 |
| malariometric update for the rainforest and savanna of ashanti region, ghana. | the epidemiological features of human infection with plasmodium were studied in a community-based survey of 35 villages in the ashanti region of ghana. the overall prevalences of malarial parasitaemia in subjects aged > or = 2 years were 50.72% in forest areas and 49.72% in savanna. plasmodium falciparum was the predominant species everywhere, followed by p. malariae in the savanna and p. ovale in the forest. the highest prevalence of asexual parasitaemia (of any species) occurred in the younges ... | 2000 | 10723520 |