Acute care issues in internationally adopted children

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-142

  Kim, Julia ^a   Staat, Mary Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BCG VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ISONIAZID; LAMIVUDINE; LEAD; MEASLES ANTIBODY; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PENICILLIN G; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADOPTION; BLOOD SMEAR; CAREGIVER; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIPHTHERIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAMILY LIFE; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; LEAD POISONING; MALARIA; MUMPS; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARASITOSIS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SKIN INFECTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYPHILIS; TETANUS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

EID: 2942676656     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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