Bhaktapur, Nepal: The MAL-ED birth cohort study in Nepal

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages S300-S303

  Shrestha, Prakash Sunder ^a   Shrestha, Sanjaya Kumar ^b   Bodhidatta, Ladaporn ^c   Strand, Tor ^d   Shrestha, Binob ^b   Shrestha, Rita ^a   Chandyo, Ram Krishna ^a   Ulak, Manjeswori ^a   Mason, Carl J ^c  

^a Tribuhvan University   (Nepal)

^b Walter Reed Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences Research Unit   (Nepal)

^c ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

child development; enteric infection; MAL ED; malnutrition; Nepal

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEPAL; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POVERTY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SEA LEVEL; SOCIAL STATUS; COOPERATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEPAL; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84913529717     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu459     Document Type: Article

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