The population-based burden of influenza-associated hospitalization in rural western Kenya, 2007-2009;La charge basee sur la population de l'hospitalisation liee a la grippe dans les regions rurales de l'ouest du Kenya, 2007-2009

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Feikin, Daniel R ^a   Ope, Maurice O ^b   Aura, Barrack ^a   Fuller, James A ^c   Gikunju, Stella ^a   Vulule, John ^d   Ng'ang'a, Zipporah ^e   Kariuki Njenga, M ^a   Breiman, Robert F ^a   Katz, Mark ^a  

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

^b Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; HISTORICAL RECORD; INFLUENZA; RURAL AREA; TESTING METHOD; VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOSE SMEAR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

KENYA;

CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 1; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84859408907     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.094326     Document Type: Article

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