Epidemiologic, socioeconomic, and clinical factors associated with severity of respiratory syncytial virus infection in previously healthy infants

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 621-627

  Somech, Raz ^a,d   Tal, Guy ^b   Gilad, Eli ^b   Mandelberg, Avigdor ^b   Tal, Asher ^b   Dalal, Ilan ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAY CARE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PASSIVE SMOKING; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33747116056     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922806291012     Document Type: Article

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