Dengue fever outbreak in Karachi 2006 - A study of profile and outcome of children under 15 years of age

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-8

  Ahmed, Saba ^a   Arif, Fehmina ^a   Yahya, Yousuf ^a   Rehman, Arshaloos ^b   Abbas, Kashif ^b   Ashraf, Sohail ^b   Akram, Dure Samin ^a  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; RASH; SEROLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43049140865     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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