Infectious diseases in Central America: The current situation

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages

  Rodriguez, Adib F ^a   Mejia, Carlos R ^b   Prado, David ^c   Arguedas, Adriano ^d  

^a Hospital Infantil Juan Pablo II   (Guatemala)

^b Roosevelt Hospital Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^c Hospital General San Juan de Dios Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^d HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE NIÑOS   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

diarrhea; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); malaria; pneumonia; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFUROXIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLOROQUINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CENTRAL AMERICA; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 15844376846     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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