Typhoid fever in children: Experience in King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1247-1250

  Wongsawat, Jurai ^a   Pancharoen, Chitsanu ^b   Thisyakorn, Usa ^b  

^a Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute   (Thailand)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Children; Typhoid Fever

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEPHRITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER; URINE SEDIMENT; VOMITING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THAILAND; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0036987535     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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