Bacterial infections in children with visceral leishmaniasis: Observations made in Kerman province, southern Iran, between 1997 and 2007

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 635-641

  Barati, M ^a   Sharifi, I ^a   Daie Parizi, M ^a   Fasihi Harandi, M ^a  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC WARD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SKIN INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 55049122779     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X311858     Document Type: Article

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