Strategies to reduce the devastating costs of early childhood diarrhea and its potential long-term impact: Imperatives that we can no longer afford to ignore

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1552-1554

  Lima, Aldo A M ^a   Guerrant, Richard L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; GIARDIA; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHIGELLA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; HUMANS; INFANT; SANITATION; THINKING; TIME;

EID: 2942558651     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/420827     Document Type: Note

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