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Pediatric Surgery International
Published in: Pediatric Surgery International 7/2012

01-07-2012 | Letter to the Editor

Host factors and typhoid fever-associated intestinal perforation in children in Nigeria

Authors: Subhash C. Arya, Nirmala Agarwal

Published in: Pediatric Surgery International | Issue 7/2012

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Excerpt

We compliment Nasir et al. [1] for their meticulous study on forecasters of mortality-associated typhoid with an intestinal perforation in Nigeria. The contribution by different host factors, such as MHC and human leukocyte antigen (HLA), that might have been responsible for the occurrence of a high proportion of intestinal perforations in typhoid fever in Nigerian children merits an exploration, and this could be assessed through studies on confirmed cases with and without intestinal perforations. …
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Metadata
Title
Host factors and typhoid fever-associated intestinal perforation in children in Nigeria
Authors
Subhash C. Arya
Nirmala Agarwal
Publication date
01-07-2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Pediatric Surgery International / Issue 7/2012
Print ISSN: 0179-0358
Electronic ISSN: 1437-9813
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-012-3098-2

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