Clinical predictors of malaria and other febrile illnesses in children under five on Pemba Island, Tanzania

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 78-81

  Yacoub, Sophie ^a   Mohammed, Mohammed Juma ^b   Ramsan, Mahdi ^c   Albonico, Marco ^d  

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

^b Public Health Laboratory Ivo De Carneri Pemba   (Tanzania)

^c United Republic of Tanzania Ivo de Carneri Foundation   (Italy)

^d Ivo de Carneri Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PALLOR; PARASITEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLENOMEGALY; TANZANIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 20844450204     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0049475054036913     Document Type: Article

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