Diagnosis of childhood pneumonia in the tropics

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 197-207

  Adegbola, R A ^a   Obaro, S K ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VACCINE;

CHILD; COUGHING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; LABORATORY TEST; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TROPICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034108376     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034980050006366     Document Type: Review

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