Prevalence of enteropathogens in stools of rural Maasai children under five years of age in the Maasailand region of the Kenyan Rift Valley

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-62

  Joyce, T ^a   McGuigan, K G ^a   Elmore Meegan, M ^b   Conroy, R M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Intl Comm Relief Suffering S   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; ETHNOLOGY; FECES; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0029684938     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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