Antibiotic use among patients with febrile illness in a low malaria endemicity setting in Uganda

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Batwala, Vincent ^a,c   Magnussen, Pascal ^b   Nuwaha, Fred ^c  

^a MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

child and infant mortality; health inequity; health service access; Indonesia; institutional and policy factors; prevalence of underweight children

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OUTPATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTER; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; DRUG UTILIZATION; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83655181375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-377     Document Type: Article

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