A survey of neonatal tetanus at a district general hospital in north-east Nigeria

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-20

  Hassan, Bala ^a   Popoola, Ayo ^b   Olokoba, Abdulfatai ^c   Salawu, Fatai K ^b  

^a State Specialist Hospital Maiduguri   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN TETANUS; NIGERIA; OMPHALITIS; OPISTHOTONUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL AREA; SPASTICITY; SUCKING; TRISMUS;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDWIFERY; NIGERIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; TETANUS; TETANUS TOXOID;

EID: 78650777577     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.100310     Document Type: Article

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