The prognostic value of dipstick urinalysis in children admitted to hospital with severe malnutrition

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 422-426

  Thuo, Nahashon ^a   Ohuma, Eric ^a   Karisa, Japhet ^a   Talbert, Alison ^a   Berkley, James A ^a,b   Maitland, Kathryn ^a,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESTERASE; GENTAMICIN; NITRITE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIPSTICK URINALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NITRITES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PROGNOSIS; REAGENT STRIPS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 77953705913     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.168211     Document Type: Article

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