Dyspepsia symptoms and Helicobacter pylori infection, Nakuru, Kenya

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1103-1107

  Shmuely, Haim ^a   Obure, Samson ^b   Passaro, Douglas J ^c   Abuksis, Galia ^a   Yahav, Jacob ^a   Fraser, Gerald ^a   Pitlik, Silvio ^a   Niv, Yaron ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Rift Valley Hospital   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 0041816080     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.020374     Document Type: Article

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