Febrile illnesses of different etiology among outpatients in four health centers in northwestern Ethiopia

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-110

  Animut, Abebe ^a   Mekonnen, Yalemtsehay ^a   Shimelis, Damte ^b   Ephraim, Eden ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROTEUS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OUTPATIENT; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE;

EID: 66849121719     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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