High rate of Simkania negevensis among Canadian inuit infants hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infections

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 506-508

  Greenberg, David ^a   Banerji, Anna ^b   Friedman, Maureen G ^a   Chiu, Cheng Hsun ^c   Kahane, Simona ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CHANG GUNG CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CANADA; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

CANADA; CHLAMYDIALES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INUITS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0141427849     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540310014648     Document Type: Article

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