Age-patterns of malaria vary with severity, transmission intensity and seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and pooled analysis

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Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Carneiro, Ilona ^a   Roca Feltrer, Arantxa ^a   Griffin, Jamie T ^b   Smith, Lucy ^a   Tanner, Marcel ^c   Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^a   Schellenberg, David ^a  

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

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; RISK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; CHILD; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; STATISTICS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PATIENT ADMISSION; SEASONS;

EID: 77749289738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008988     Document Type: Review

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