Sampling strategies to measure the prevalence of common recurrent infections in longitudinal studies

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schmidt, Wolf Peter ^a   Genser, Bernd ^b   Barreto, Mauricio L ^b   Clasen, Thomas ^a   Luby, Stephen P ^c   Cairncross, Sandy ^a   Chalabi, Zaid ^a  

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

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RECALL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 77955113143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-7-5     Document Type: Article

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