Clinical burden of invasive pneumococcal disease in selected developing countries

Value in Health Regional Issues

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259-263

  Maimaiti, Namaitijiang ^a,b   Ahmed, Zafar ^a,c   Md Isa, Zaleha ^b   Ghazi, Hasanain Faisal ^a,b   Aljunid, Syed ^a,c  

^a United Nations University   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Clinical burden; Developing countries; East Asia; IPD; Latin America; Middle East; South Asia; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EAST ASIA; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE EAST; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN LOAD; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84884156006     PISSN: 22121099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vhri.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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