Pneumococcal disease among children in a rural area of West Africa

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 431-437

  O'Dempsey, Timothy J D ^a,b   Mcardle, Theresa F ^a   Lloyd Evans, Nellie ^a   Baldeh, Ignatius ^a   Lawrence, Bruce E ^a   Secka, Ousman ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Africa; children; Pneumococcal disease; pneumococcus

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0029877896     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199605000-00010     Document Type: Article

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