Childhood Infectious Diseases: Overview

International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 517-538

  Khan, Amira M ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infections; Bloody diarrhea; Child mortality; Child survival; Dengue; Diarrhea; Ebola; Infections; Malaria; Newborn sepsis; Persistent diarrhea; Pneumonia; Soil transmitted helminths; Typhoid

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025477020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00065-5     Document Type: Chapter

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