An epidemic of acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis in Armenia

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 342-344

  Sarkissian, Ashot ^a   Papazian, Marina ^a   Azatian, Gayane ^a   Arikiants, Nina ^a   Babloyan, Ara ^a   Leumann, Ernst ^b  

^a Medical Centre 'Arabkir'   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute glomerulonephritis; Armenia; Epidemic

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONVULSION; EPIDEMIC; HEART FAILURE; HEMATURIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCARLET FEVER; SOCIOECONOMICS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0030850203     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.77.4.342     Document Type: Article

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