Hospitalization of Cuban children for giardiasis: A retrospective study in a paediatric hospital in Havana

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-56

  Escobedo, A A ^a   Almirall, P ^b   Alfonso, M ^b   Salazar, Y ^c   Avila I ^d   Cimerman, S ^e   Nunez F A ^f   Dawkins, I V ^d  

^a Academic Paediatric Hospital 'Pedro Borrás'   (Cuba)

^b Faculty of Medicine 'Comandante Manuel Fajardo'   (Cuba)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE HIGIENE   (Cuba)

^d Academic Paediatric Hospital 'Centro Habana'   (Cuba)

^e INSTITUTO DE INFECTOLOGIA EMÍLIO RIBAS   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEPACRINE; METRONIDAZOLE; SECNIDAZOLE; TINIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CUBA; DEHYDRATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; URTICARIA; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUBA; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; METRONIDAZOLE; QUINACRINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TINIDAZOLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 79551704495     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485911X12899838413420     Document Type: Article

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