Measles is still a severe problem in Eastern Turkey [1]

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-88

  Tepebaşili, Ibrahim ^a   Çaksen, Hüseyin ^a   Odabaş, Dursun ^a   Köse, Dogan ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; RETINOL;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONVULSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; LARYNGITIS; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; TURKEY;

EID: 3042559796     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2004.04.001     Document Type: Letter

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