Concurrent malaria and enteric fever in Pakistan

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 635-638

  Khan, M A ^a   Mekan, S F ^b   Abbas, Z ^b,c   Smego Jr , R A ^d  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences ^*

^c SINDH INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY AND TRANSPLANTATION   (Pakistan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Enteric fever; Malaria; Tropical infection; Typhoid

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; NAUSEA; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERINFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TYPHOID FEVER; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 27644598125     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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