Epidemiological features of severe paediatric malaria in north western Ethiopia

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 780-783

  Seboxa, Teshale ^a   Snow, R W ^b,c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; FATALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN AFRICA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH; MALARIA; MEASUREMENT; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; YOUTH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS;

ETHIOPIA, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0031395063     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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