Infectious diseases in sub-Saharan African immigrant children in Madrid, Spain

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 830-834

  Huerga, Helena ^a   López vélez, Rogelio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Children; Immigration; Infectious diseases; Spain; Sub Saharan Africans

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; FILARIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFANT; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; SYMPTOM; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036375315     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-200209000-00009     Document Type: Article

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