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Mortality Trends Observed in Population-Based Surveillance of an Urban Slum Settlement, Kibera, Kenya, 2007–2010

BACKGROUND: We used population based infectious disease surveillance to characterize mortality rates in residents of an urban slum in Kenya. METHODS: We analyzed biweekly household visit data collected two weeks before death for 749 cases who died during January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010. We also...

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Autores principales: Olack, Beatrice, Feikin, Daniel R., Cosmas, Leonard O., Odero, Kennedy O., Okoth, George O., Montgomery, Joel M., Breiman, Robert F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24489678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085913