Evaluation of the sick child following travel to the tropics

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 821-826

  Summer, Andrea ^a   Stauffer, William M ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCUBATION TIME; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCULT BLOOD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TROPICAL DISEASE; AGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIET; IMMUNE SYSTEM; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; DIET; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 59649095522     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20081201-12     Document Type: Article

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