Kawasaki disease in India: Increasing awareness or increased incidence?

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-29

  Kushner, Howard I ^a   Macnee, Rupert P ^b   Burns, Jane C ^c,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kawasaki Disease Foundation India Project   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIVER ENZYME; MERCURY; SUPERANTIGEN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

BACTERIUM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD DEATH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONSENSUS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; FEVER; FOOT EDEMA; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAND EDEMA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; PYURIA; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SOCIAL CHANGE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STOMATITIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; INCIDENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AWARENESS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 63349099715     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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