Chlamydia as a cause of late neonatal pneumonia at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 476-479

  Were, F N ^a   Govedi, A F ^a   Revathi, G ^b   Wambani, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; KENYA; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TIME;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036769557     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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