Invasive pneumococcal disease in homozygous sickle cell disease: Jamaican experience 1973-1997

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-70

  Knight Madden, Jennifer ^a   Serjeant, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGISM; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0035141003     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2001.109709     Document Type: Article

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