Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease. Part 1: Determinants operating at individual and household level

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 267-277

  Bates, Imelda ^a   Fenton, Caroline ^b   Gruber, Janet ^c   Lalloo, David ^a   Lara, Antonieta Medina ^a   Squire, S Bertel ^a   Theobald, Sally ^a   Thomson, Rachael ^a   Tolhurst, Rachel ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE; ANEMIA; BIOLOGY; COMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPOSURE; GENDER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEREDITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALARIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 2342429316     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(04)01002-3     Document Type: Review

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