Severe febrile illness in adult hospital admissions in Tanzania: A prospective study in an area of high malaria transmission

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 688-695

  Nadjm, Behzad ^a   Mtove, George ^b   Amos, Ben ^c   Walker, Naomi F ^c   Diefendal, Helmut ^d   Reyburn, Hugh ^a   Whitty, Christopher J M ^a  

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

^b NIMR Amani Research Centre   (Tanzania)

^c Teule Hospital   (Tanzania)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Adult; Bacterial infections; HIV infection; Malaria; Radiography, thoracic; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TANZANIA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BACTEREMIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COINFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SALMONELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84867331895     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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