Neonatal tetanus: A continuing challenge in the southeast of Turkey: Risk factors, clinical features and prognostic factors

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 171-174

  Gürkan, Fuat ^a,c   Boşnak, Mehmet ^a   Dikici, Bünyamin ^a   Boşnak, Vuslat ^a   Taş, M Ali ^a   Haspolat, Kenan ^a   Kara, I Hamdi ^b   Özkan, Ilker ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Department of Family Practice ^*  (Turkey)

^c DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Neonatal tetanus; Prognosis; Public health; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIAZEPAM; PENICILLIN G; TETANUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SPASTICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRRITABLE MOOD; MALE; MIDWIFERY; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH; SPASM; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TETANUS; TETANUS ANTITOXIN; TETANUS TOXOID; TRISMUS; TURKEY; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0344061563     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007500109522     Document Type: Article

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