Risk factors for measles death: Kyegegwa District, western Uganda, February-September, 2015

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mafigiri, Richardson ^a,b   Nsubuga, Fred ^a   Ario, Alex Riolexus ^a  

^a Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program Field Epidemiology Track   (Uganda)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Measles; Outbreak; Risk factors; Uganda

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE FINDING; CHILD; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; RASH; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK FACTOR; UGANDA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; EPIDEMIC; INFANT; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEASLES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; UGANDA; VACCINATION; VITAMIN A;

EID: 85021656051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2558-7     Document Type: Article

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