Oral rehydration therapy plus loperamide versus loperamide alone in the treatment of traveler's diarrhea

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1286-1289

  Caeiro, Juan Pablo ^a,b   DuPont, Herbert L ^a,b,c   Albrecht, Helmut ^a,b   Ericsson, Charles D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare   (United States)

^c MC 1 164 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOPERAMIDE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0033052316     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514786     Document Type: Article

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