Acute jaundice in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 717-721

  Bounlu, Khanthong ^a   Insisiengmay, Sithat ^a   Vanthanouvong, Khemphet ^a   Saykham, ^a   Widjaja, Susanna ^a   Iinuma, Kazushige ^a   Matsubayashi, Keiji ^a   Laras, Kanti ^a   Putri, Maidy P ^a   Endy, Timothy P ^a   Vaughn, David W ^a   Raengsakulrach, Boonyos ^a   Hyams, Kenneth C ^a   Hayden, Mark ^a   Scheffel, Christi ^a   Corwin, Andrew L ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VIET NAM;

EID: 2442722912     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514948     Document Type: Article

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