The burden of common infectious disease syndromes at the clinic and household level from population-based surveillance in rural and Urban Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Feikin, Daniel R ^a,b   Olack, Beatrice ^a,b   Bigogo, Godfrey M ^a,b   Audi, Allan ^a,b   Cosmas, Leonard ^a,b   Aura, Barrack ^a,b   Burke, Heather ^a,b   Njenga, M Kariuki ^a,b   Williamson, John ^b   Breiman, Robert F ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; KENYA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; URBAN AREA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIARRHEA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEVER; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79251536904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016085     Document Type: Article

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