Analysis of risk factors for T. brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness within villages in south-east Uganda

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zoller, Thomas ^a   Fèvre, Eric M ^b   Welburn, Susan C ^b   Odiit, Martin ^c,e   Coleman, Paul G ^d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UACP   (Uganda)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e Livestock Health Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; UGANDA; URBAN AREA; WETLAND; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARASITOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATTLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA; WETLANDS;

EID: 47749085981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-88     Document Type: Article

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