Distribution of survival times of deliberate Plasmodium falciparum infections in tertiary syphilis patients

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 811-816

  Sama, W ^a   Dietz, K ^b   Smith, T ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Institut fur Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distribution; Malariatherapy; Neurosyphilis; Plasmodium falciparum; Quantile quantile plots; Survival time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONITORING; NEUROSYPHILIS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROBABILITY; RANK SUM TEST; SURVIVAL TIME; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROSYPHILIS; ODDS RATIO; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33745620178     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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