An epidemiological study of RSV infection in the Gambia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 562-568

  Weber, Martin W ^a,b   Milligan, Paul ^d,e,f   Sanneh, Mariama ^d,e,f   Awemoyi, Agnes ^d   Dakour, Raduwan ^c   Schneider, Gisela ^c   Palmer, Ayo ^b   Jallow, Mariatou ^e   Oparaogu, Anslem ^f   Whittle, Hilton ^d,e,f   Kim Mulholland, E ^f   Greenwood, Brian M ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital Gambia   (Gambia)

^d WEC Mission Hospital   (Gambia)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anoxemia; Epidemiologic factors; Health services accessibility; Hospitals; Households; Measles; Patient admission; Respiratory syncytial virus infections epidemiology; Respiratory syncytial virus, Human pathogenicity; Respiratory tract infections etiology

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; VIRAL DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAMBIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICS;

GAMBIA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAMBIA; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 0036316861     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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