Viral gastroenteritis: The USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT experience

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 747-750

  Whittaker, David R ^a   Callan, James E ^a   Campbell, Jerome T ^a   McCarten, Michael D ^a  

^a Medical Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOPERAMIDE; PROCHLORPERAZINE MALEATE; PROMETHAZINE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROENTERITIS; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAVY; SHIP; VIRUS INFECTION; CASE REPORT; EPIDEMIC; INCIDENCE; MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NAVAL MEDICINE; SHIPS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16544374351     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.9.747     Document Type: Article

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