Clinical experience with enteric fever in The Gambia, West Africa 1981-1986.
The clinical experience with enteric fever in The Gambia over a 5-year period is presented. It remains a common cause of septicaemic illness, but the mortality rate is lower than previously reported from West Africa.
Weeramanthri
T S
TS
Medical Research Council Laboratories, Banjul, The Gambia.
Corrah
P T
PT
Mabey
D C
DC
Greenwood
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BM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002701:Chloramphenicol / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005714:Gambia; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology
D002701:Chloramphenicol