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Detecting epidemic malaria, Uganda

Jonathan Cox et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 May.

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(A) Weekly observed and expected numbers of outpatient (OP) and inpatient (IP) cases of clinically diagnosed malaria from to 5 sentinel health centers in Kabale district, southwestern Uganda, May–July 2006. B) Weekly numbers of clinically diagnosed malaria cases and the proportion of cases subsequently testing positive for Plasmodium falciparum infection by rapid diagnostic test at Bufundi, Kabale district, southwestern Uganda, May–July 2006.

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