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Types and causes of childhood diarrhea / Tinuade A. Ogunlesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogunlesi, Tinuade A.
- Series:
- Novinka (Series)
- Public health in the 21st century series.
- Novinka
- Public health in the 21st century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diarrhea in children.
- Diarrhea in children--Etiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (64 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The three clinical types of childhood diarrhoea include - acute watery, persistent and dysentery. Childhood diarrhoea may be secretory, osmotic or invasive. This book discusses the aetiologies of childhood diarrhoea, as well as variance of these symptoms in different locations around the world.
- Contents:
- Diarrhoeal syndromes
- Epidemiology of diarrhoea
- Mechanisms of diarrhoea
- Predisposing factors
- Aetiology of watery diarrhoea
- Dysentery
- Persistent diarrhoea
- Chronic diarrhoea.
- Notes:
- "Nova biomedical."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61728-779-2
- OCLC:
- 709889268
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