NOBEL MEDICUS, cilt.5, ss.56-62, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Malaria is still an important public health problem with more than 300 millions of cases and almost two millions of deaths annually. Despite a sustain ed decrease, malaria is still prominent in Stratum-I and Adana, Turkey, due to the population density, the high rate of immigration/emigration. This study aimed to determine the status and changes of malaria characteristics in Adana province in terms of inter- and intra-annual frequencies, properties of the infected cases in the peri-millennium (1995 to 2004), and the affecting factors