Acute Morbidity and Physical Growth in Rural Guatemalan Children

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 1975, Pages 1296-1301

  Martorell, Reynaldo ^a   Habicht, Jean Pierre ^a   Yarbrough, Charles ^a   Lechtig, Aaron ^a   Klein, Robert E ^a   Western, Karl A ^b  

^a Division of Human Development Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEVER; GROWTH; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL POPULATION;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEVER; GROWTH; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RURAL POPULATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0016578616     PISSN: 00968994     EISSN: 23742976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1975.02120480022007     Document Type: Article

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