Recent corticosteroid use and the risk of complicated varicella in otherwise immunocompetent children

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 409-414

  Patel, Hema ^a   Macarthur, Colin ^a   Johnson, David ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; BECLOMETASONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RISK; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROID THERAPY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

EID: 0029936514     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1996.02170290075012     Document Type: Article

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