Acute bacterial infection in kwashiorkor and marasmus.
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Acute bacterial infection in kwashiorkor and marasmus.
" God cast down on them great tribulation, famine, and pestilence: the people perished." So Hesiod (c. 700 B.c.) described the association between famine and pestilence, and they have been firmly coupled in men's minds at least since that time. McCance (1951) has reviewed the historical association. Children with kwashiorkor or nutritional marasmus often have acute bacterial infections. This ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5589.407