A country-wide malaria survey in Mozambique. II. Malaria attributable proportion of fever and establishment of malaria case definition in children across different epidemiological settings

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Mabunda, Samuel ^a,b   Aponte, John J ^c,d   Tiago, Armindo ^e   Alonso, Pedro ^c,d  

^a National Malaria Control Programme   (Mozambique)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Ministérioda Saúde   (Mozambique)

^e EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MOZAMBIQUE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BLOOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 65549170023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-74     Document Type: Article

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