Cryptosporidiosis in the elderly population of the united states

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 698-705

  Mor, Siobhan M ^a,b   Demaria Jr , Alfred ^c   Griffiths, Jeffrey K ^b,c,d,e   Naumova, Elena N ^b,d  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Bureau of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; AGE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62449110343     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597033     Document Type: Article

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