Typhoid fever in children: Diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 713-714

  Stormon, Michael O ^a   McIntyre, Peter B ^a   Morris, Joanne ^a   Fasher, Bruce ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Symptoms; Therapy; Travel; Typhoid fever

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFIXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SPLENOMEGALY; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0030858985     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199707000-00016     Document Type: Article

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