Challenges in identifying the methodology to estimate the prevalence of infectious intestinal disease in Malta

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 393-399

  Gauci, Charmaine ^a   Gilles, H ^b   O'Brien, S ^c   Mamo, J ^d   Stabile, I ^d   Ruggeri, F ^e   Micallef, C C ^a  

^a Disease Surveillance Unit   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW BIAS; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALTA; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER BIAS; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DYSENTERY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MALTA; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33244464317     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005133     Document Type: Article

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