منابع مشابه
Acute Infective Diarrhoea
seen with severe dehydration and the World Health Organisation believe 90% of all deaths from diarrhoea in children may be prevented. Chronic diarrhoea has emerged, however, as an important problem as a result of this improvement in mortality and in particular, persistent diarrhoea that is, diarrhoea that begins acutely but persists, continuing beyond two weeks after the onset of the acute diar...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5601.347