Peculiarities of chronic diarrhea in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria

Journal of Health Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 435-440

  Nwokediuko, Sylvester ^a   Bojuwoye, Bababode ^b   Ozumba, Uchenna Chinedu ^a   Ozoh, Gladys ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EAR DISEASE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENITAL ULCER; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGERIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RASH; SEROLOGY; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; THRUSH; VAGINA DISCHARGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 24744464559     PISSN: 13449702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1248/jhs.48.435     Document Type: Article

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