Quantifying the contribution of plasmodium falciparum malaria to febrile illness amongst african children

eLife

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Dalrymple, Ursula ^a,b   Cameron, Ewan ^b   Bhatt, Samir ^b,c   Weiss, Daniel J ^b   Gupta, Sunetra ^a   Gething, Peter W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIEMSA STAIN; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; AFRICA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85032970379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.29198.001     Document Type: Article

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