Anemia, micronutrient deficiencies, and malaria in children and women in Sierra Leone prior to the Ebola outbreak - Findings of a cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Wirth, James P ^a   Rohner, Fabian ^a   Woodruff, Bradley A ^a   Chiwile, Faraja ^b   Yankson, Hannah ^c   Koroma, Aminata S ^d   Russel, Feimata ^d   Sesay, Fatmata ^e   Dominguez, Elisa ^f   Petry, Nicolai ^a   Shahab Ferdows, Setareh ^g   De Onis, Mercedes ^h   Hodges, Mary H ^e  

^a Ground Work   (Switzerland)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c WHO   (Sierra Leone)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

^e HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^f World Health Organization Ouagadougou   (Burkina Faso)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; OROSOMUCOID; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIERRA LEONE; URBAN AREA; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; DEFICIENCY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SIERRA LEONE; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84968735869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155031     Document Type: Article

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