Famine-associated AED toxicity in rural Zambia [1]

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1127-

  Birbeck, Gretchen Lano ^a,b   Kalichi, Ellie M N ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chikankata Health Services   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUNGER; LETTER; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZAMBIA;

ANTICONVULSANTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; PHENOBARBITAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RURAL POPULATION; STARVATION; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0043073032     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.22403.x     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Foreign D. World Briefing/Africa: Zambia: rains destroy homes and crops. The New York Times March 27, 2003; Sect. 6.
2. Schneider DB. Overseas: flash points loom in war on hunger. The New York Times November 18, 2002; Sect. 27.
3. Diasio RB. Pharmacokinetics. In: Goldman: Cecil's textbook of medicine. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 2000:94.