Comparing actual and perceived causes of fever among community members in a low malaria transmission setting in northern Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1406-1415

  Hertz, Julian T ^a   Munishi, O Michael ^b   Sharp, Joanne P ^c   Reddy, Elizabeth A ^a,b,d   Crump, John A ^a,b,d,e,f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Africa; Beliefs; Fever; Malaria; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETIOLOGY; MALARIA; MEDICINE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BED NET; BRUCELLOSIS; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MYCOSIS; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; TANZANIA; TOOTH ERUPTION; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; TYPHUS; WARD; WEATHER; WITCHCRAFT; ZOONOSIS;

KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; MOSHI; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AFRICA; BELIEFS; FEVER; MALARIA; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84886296586     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12191     Document Type: Article

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