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Sampling strategies to measure the prevalence of common recurrent infections in longitudinal studies
BACKGROUND: Measuring recurrent infections such as diarrhoea or respiratory infections in epidemiological studies is a methodological challenge. Problems in measuring the incidence of recurrent infections include the episode definition, recall error, and the logistics of close follow up. Longitudina...
Autores principales: | Schmidt, Wolf-Peter, Genser, Bernd, Barreto, Mauricio L, Clasen, Thomas, Luby, Stephen P, Cairncross, Sandy, Chalabi, Zaid |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2922204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20678239 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-7-5 |
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