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Identifying children with excess malaria episodes after adjusting for variation in exposure: identification from a longitudinal study using statistical count models

BACKGROUND: The distribution of Plasmodium falciparum clinical malaria episodes is over-dispersed among children in endemic areas, with more children experiencing multiple clinical episodes than would be expected based on a Poisson distribution. There is consistent evidence for micro-epidemiological...

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Autores principales: Ndungu, Francis Maina, Marsh, Kevin, Fegan, Gregory, Wambua, Juliana, Nyangweso, George, Ogada, Edna, Mwangi, Tabitha, Nyundo, Chris, Macharia, Alex, Uyoga, Sophie, Williams, Thomas N, Bejon, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4527301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26248615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0422-4