Evidence for Over-Dispersion in the Distribution of Clinical Malaria Episodes in Children

Tabitha Wanja Mwangi; Gregory Fegan; Thomas Neil Williams; Sam Muchina Kinyanjui; Robert William Snow; Kevin Marsh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002196

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Evidence for Over-Dispersion in the Distribution of Clinical Malaria Episodes in Children

Tabitha Wanja Mwangi ,

* E-mail: tmwangi@kilifi.kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, Kilifi, Kenya
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Gregory Fegan,

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, Kilifi, Kenya, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Thomas Neil Williams,

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sam Muchina Kinyanjui,

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Robert William Snow,

Affiliations Centre of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, Nairobi, Kenya
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Kevin Marsh

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research, Coast/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Evidence for Over-Dispersion in the Distribution of Clinical Malaria Episodes in Children

Tabitha Wanja Mwangi,
Gregory Fegan,
Thomas Neil Williams,
Sam Muchina Kinyanjui,
Robert William Snow,
Kevin Marsh

Published: May 21, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002196

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Error in abstract

Posted by tabimwangi on 23 May 2008 at 05:55 GMT

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