Epidemiology of episodic adenolymphangitis: A longitudinal prospective surveillance among a rural community endemic for bancroftian filariasis in coastal Orissa, India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Babu, Bontha V ^a   Nayak, Abhay N ^a   Dhal, Kalpataru ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDEMA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPISODIC ADENOLYMPHANGITIS; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FEVER; FILARIASIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYMPHANGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PAIN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CULEX; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 23044456324     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-50     Document Type: Article

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