Childhood pneumonia: we must move forward

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9571, 2007, Pages 1409-1410

  Steinhoff, Mark ^a   Black, Robert ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; VACCINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOXEMIA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALARIA; MEASLES; NUTRITION; OXIMETER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; WHEEZING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34247371341     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60644-8     Document Type: Note

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