Whooping cough: The current scene

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Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1547-1553

  Singh, Meenu ^a   Lingappan, Krithika ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Acellular pertussis vaccine; Epidemiology; Pertussis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; ISRAEL; PERTUSSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 33751229033     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.130.5.1547     Document Type: Article

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