Increasing malaria hospital admissions in Uganda between 1999 and 2009

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Okiro, Emelda A ^a,b   Bitira, David ^c   Mbabazi, Gladys ^d   Mpimbaza, Arthur ^d   Alegana, Victor A ^a   Talisuna, Ambrose O ^e   Snow, Robert W ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c International HIV/AIDS Alliance Uganda   (Uganda)

^d Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project   (Uganda)

^e IDRC U   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; HOMAPAK; INSECTICIDE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEDIATRIC WARD; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; BED NET; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL; INFANT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; PATIENT ADMISSION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UGANDA;

EID: 79953889871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-37     Document Type: Article

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