Parasite threshold associated with clinical malaria in areas of different transmission intensities in north eastern Tanzania

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Mmbando, Bruno P ^a,b   Lusingu, John P ^b   Vestergaard, Lasse S ^a   Lemnge, Martha M ^b   Theander, Thor G ^a   Scheike, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFANT; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749111201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-75     Document Type: Article

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