The increasing burden of disease in Bangladeshi children due to Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-8

  Saha, S K ^a   Rikitomi, N ^b   Ruhulamin, M ^a   Watanabe, K ^b   Ahmed, K ^b   Biswas, D ^a   Hanif, M ^a   Khan, W A ^a   Islam, M ^a   Matsumoto, K ^b   Nagatake, T ^b  

^a DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 8044260278     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724936.1997.11747855     Document Type: Article

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