Sporadic paediatric diarrhoeal illness in urban and rural sites in Nyanza Province, Kenya

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 387-398

  Beatty, M E ^a,b   Ochieng, J B ^c   Chege, W ^a,b   Kumar, L ^a   Okoth, G ^c   Shapiro, R L ^a,b   Wells, J G ^a   Parsons, M B ^a   Bopp, C ^a   Chiller, T ^a,b   Vulule, J ^c   Mintz, E ^a   Slutsker, L ^a,c   Brooks, J T ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FECES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77952405770     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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