Risk factors for measles mortality among hospitalized Somali refugees displaced by famine, Kenya, 2011

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Mahamud, Abdirahman ^a   Burton, Ann ^b   Hassan, Mohamed ^a   Ahmed, Jamal A ^a   Wagacha, John B ^b   Spiegel, Paul ^c   Haskew, Chris ^c   Eidex, Rachel B ^a   Shetty, Sharmila ^a   Cookson, Susan ^a   Navarro Colorado, Carlos ^a   Goodson, James L ^a  

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

^b United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Kenya)

^c United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

acute malnutrition; measles; mortality; refugees; vaccination

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUNGER; KENYA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

ACUTE MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MORTALITY; REFUGEES; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; REFUGEES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOMALIA; STARVATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 84884913708     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit442     Document Type: Article

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