Four-country surveillance of intestinal intussusception and diarrhoea in children

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 82-86

  Awasthi, Shally ^a   Agarwal, Girdhar G ^b   Mishra, Vikas ^a   Nag, Vijay Laxmi ^c   El Sayed, Hesham Fathey ^e   Da Cunha, Antonio Jose Ledo ^f   Madeiro, Alvaro ^g   Jain, Dipty ^d   MacHaria, William M ^h   Ndung'U, James ^h   Awasthi, Saumya ^a   Wakhlu, Ashish ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^c SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^e Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^g International Clinical Epidemiology Network   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Intussusception; Rotavirus; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ACTIVE; INFANT; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTAVIRUS; SEASONS;

EID: 62549166234     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2008.01434.x     Document Type: Article

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