Age, Spatial, and Temporal Variations in Hospital Admissions with Malaria in Kilifi County, Kenya: A 25-Year Longitudinal Observational Study.

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Published in PLoS Med on June 28, 2016

Authors

Polycarp Mogeni1, Thomas N Williams1,2, Greg Fegan3, Christopher Nyundo1, Evasius Bauni1, Kennedy Mwai1, Irene Omedo1, Patricia Njuguna1, Charles R Newton1,4, Faith Osier1, James A Berkley1,4, Laura L Hammitt1,5, Brett Lowe1, Gabriel Mwambingu1, Ken Awuondo1, Neema Mturi1, Norbert Peshu1, Robert W Snow4,6, Abdisalan Noor4,6, Kevin Marsh1,4, Philip Bejon1,4

Author Affiliations

1: KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
2: Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
3: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
4: Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, CCVTM, Oxford, United Kingdom.
5: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
6: Spatial Health Metrics Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.

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