Impact of age and drug resistance on mortality in typhoid fever

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 214-217

  Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Mortality; Risk factors; Typhoid

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0029831298     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.75.3.214     Document Type: Article

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