Retinol concentrations in liver and serum among children who died in a diarrheal hospital in Bangladesh

Nutrition Research

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1719-1729

  Wahed, Mohammad A ^a   Mitra, Amal K ^a,b   Azad, Abul K ^a   Jahan, Ferdouse ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Children; Death; Protein energy malnutrition; Retinol; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; SALMONELLA; SEPTICEMIA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033485334     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(99)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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