A one-year study of streptococcal infections and their complications among Ethiopian children

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 211-225

  Tewodros, W ^a   Muhe, L ^a   Daniel, E ^a   Schalen C ^b   Kronvall, G ^c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFACLOR; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CHILD; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TONSILLITIS;

CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOLS; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; SEX FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 0026784328     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800050172     Document Type: Article

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