Nasopharyngeal Streptococcus Pneumoniae among under-five year old children at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 156-162

  Nyandiko, W M ^a   Greenberg, D ^b   Shany, E ^b   Yiannoutsos, C T ^c   Musick, B ^a,c   Mwangi, A W ^a  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CROWDING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; NASOPHARYNX; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VENTILATION;

EID: 34547405882     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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