Fluid intake and decreased risk for hospitalization for dengue fever, Nicaragua

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1003-1006

  Harris, Eva ^a   Pérez, Leonel ^b   Phares, Christina R ^a   De los Angeles Pérez, Maria ^c   Idiaquez, Wendy ^c   Rocha, Julio ^d   Cuadra, Ricardo ^d   Hernandez, Emelina ^e   Campos, Luisa Amanda ^b   Gonzalez, Alcides ^b   Amador, Juan Jose ^b   Balmaseda, Angel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ministerio de Salud   (Nicaragua)

^c Hospital Infantil Manuel de Jesus Rivera   (Nicaragua)

^d Hosp Esc O D Rosales Arguello   (Nicaragua)

^e Centro de Salud Francisco Buitrago   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NICARAGUA; PREVALENCE; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0043127365     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0908.020456     Document Type: Article

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