'Killer' canines: The morbidity and mortality of ebino in northern Uganda

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 706-710

  Iriso, Robert ^a   Accorsi, Sandro ^b   Akena, Stephen ^a   Amone, Jackson ^a   Fabiani, Massimo ^b   Ferrarese, Nicoletta ^a   Lukwiya, Matthew ^a   Rosolen, Teresa ^b   Declich, Silvia ^b  

^a St Mary's Hospital Lacor Uganda   (Uganda)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Africa; ebino; Hospital

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEVER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UGANDA; VOMITING;

ANEMIA; CUSPID; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEPSIS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH, UNERUPTED; UGANDA;

UGANDA;

EID: 0033752773     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2000.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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