Rectal swabs, stored in Amies transport medium (Oxoid, Milan, Italy), were transferred in a cold box to the laboratory of the corresponding district hospital within 3 hours of collection.
The postal code (postcode) is alphanumeric, up to 7 characters long; the first two (or four) characters identify the major area and the corresponding district, and the last three characters representing the address, usually within 80 properties.
The percentages in the brackets represent market share – admissions from the corresponding district, and are approximate values since the database includes hospitals that report cases over different time periods from 1996 to 2004.
Within the study sites, all malaria cases, regardless of parasite species, meeting specified inclusion criteria will be enrolled at the corresponding district referral hospital over a 2-year period.
List of CBDV isolates with corresponding districts, geographic coordinates, elevations, and GenBank accession numbers for each genome component.
Each health unit is required to send monthly information to the corresponding health district on the number of children who have received each antigen.
If the JNHS coordination centre cannot contact participants by mail, the JNHS Follow-up confirmse confifms if the subject has moved, and a questionnaire is sent to the new address, which is obtained from the resident registry of the corresponding local district.
The full postcode of the usual residence of each woman at the time of diagnosis was then linked to the corresponding enumeration district and the patient assigned to one of these five deprivation categories.
For example, we can see that there are, on average, about 16 GPs within a district; the corresponding maximum is 93.
It is important to point out that, in the case of T2D, our model 1 (i.e. adjusted for sex and age) provided somewhat stronger odds ratios (OR) at the municipality level than the corresponding model at the district level reported in a previous study [ 16].
