Snowball Vs. House-to-House Technique for Measuring Annual Incidence of Kala-azar in the Higher Endemic Blocks of Bihar, India: A Comparison

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Siddiqui, Niyamat A ^a   Rabidas, Vidya N ^a   Sinha, Sanjay K ^a   Verma, Rakesh B ^a   Pandey, Krishna ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^a   Ranjan, Alok ^b   Topno, Roshan K ^a   Lal, Chandra S ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Sahoo, Ganesh C ^a   Sridhar, Srikantaih ^c   Pandey, Arvind ^d   Das, Pradeep ^a  

^a RAJENDRA MEMORIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c CARE India ^*  (India)

^d INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSE TO HOUSE SURVEY TECHNIQUE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITY CONTROL; SEX RATIO; SNOWBALL SAMPLING APPROACH; TRAINING;

EID: 84992134081     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004970     Document Type: Article

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