Role of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in acute respiratory-tract infections in Saudi paediatric patients

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 595-601

  Al Rashed, A ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ADENOVIRIDAE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS; SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031880990     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1998.11813317     Document Type: Article

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