Comorbidities and mortality among children hospitalized with diarrheal disease in an area of high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus infection

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-338

  Chhagan, Meera K ^a   Kauchali, Shuaib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Comorbidities; Diarrhea; Human immunodeficiency virus; Malnutrition; Mortality

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA;

BACTEREMIA; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 33645552817     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000207400.93627.4c     Document Type: Article

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