Throat carriage of pneumococci in healthy school children in the Union Territory of Pondicherry

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 112, Issue SEPT., 2000, Pages 100-103

  Kanungo, R ^a   d'Lima, D ^a   Rajalakshmi, B ^a   Natarajan, M K ^a   Badrinath, S ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Healthy children; Nasopharyngeal carriage; Pneumococci

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; THROAT DISEASE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INDIA; PHARYNX; SEASONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033763132     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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