Characteristics of children with shigella encephalopathy: Experience from a large urban diarrhea treatment center in bangladesh

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 444-447

  Chisti, Mohammod Jobayer ^a   Faruque, Abu Syed Golam ^a   Khan, Wasif Ali ^a   Das, Sumon Kumar ^a   Zabed, Mir Borhan ^b   Salam, Mohammed Abdus ^a  

^a ICDDRB Clinical Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Case fatality; Dehydration; Illiterate father; Shigella encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BRAIN DISEASE; BREAST FEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; FATALITY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN PERIOD; PARENT COUNSELING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; STUNTING SYNDROME; URBAN AREA; WEANING;

EID: 77951792418     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181cb4608     Document Type: Article

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