Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa

Dejan Zurovac; Ambrose O. Talisuna; Robert W. Snow

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001176

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Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa

Dejan Zurovac ,

* E-mail: dzurovac@nairobi.kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ambrose O. Talisuna,

Affiliations Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Robert W. Snow

Affiliations Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa

Dejan Zurovac,
Ambrose O. Talisuna,
Robert W. Snow

Published: February 21, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001176

About the Authors

Dejan Zurovac

* E-mail: dzurovac@nairobi.kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ambrose O. Talisuna

Robert W. Snow

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: DZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AOT RWS. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: DZ AOT RWS. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: DZ AOT RWS.

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