Ability of mothers to diagnose fever and anaemia in their young children, in a malaria-endemic region of West Africa

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-303

  Ye Y ^a   Traore C ^b   Meissner, P ^c   Coulibaly, B ^d   Becher, H ^c   Muller O ^c  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ   (Burkina Faso)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

AFRICA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTRONIC THERMOMETER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANEMIA; BURKINA FASO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MOTHERS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 34748916974     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485907X176391     Document Type: Article

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