Community-based surveillance to monitor mortality in a malaria-endemic and ebola-epidemic setting in rural Guinea

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1389-1397

  Tiffany, Amanda ^a   Moundekeno, Faya Pascal ^b   Traoré, Alexis ^c   Haile, Melat ^b   Sterk, Esther ^b   Guilavogui, Timothé ^d   Serafini, Micaela ^b   Genton, Blaise ^e,f   Grais, Rebecca F ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c Direction Prefectorale de la Sante   (Guinea)

^d National Malaria Control Program   (Guinea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; GUINEA; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HICCUP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; VOMITING; COMMUNITY CARE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85005990084     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0376     Document Type: Article

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