High Incidence of Pertussis among Hajj Pilgrims

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1270-1272

  Wilder Smith, Annelies ^a   Earnest, Arul ^a   Ravindran, Sindhu ^a   Paton, Nicholas I ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; COUGHING; FEMALE; HAJJ PILGRIM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BORDETELLA INFECTIONS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISLAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 0242574927     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378748     Document Type: Article

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