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| Castro,Melânia X.; Soares,Alberto M.; Fonsêca,Walter; Rey,Luís C.; Guerrant,Richard L.; Lima,Aldo A. M.. |
| BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory infection (ARI), diarrheal disease (DD) and infective dermatitis (ID) are important causes of morbidity in children under five, in Northeast Brazil. Objectives: (a) to evaluate the morbidity of ARI, DD and ID; and (b) to determine their association with cellular immunity in poor urban children from Fortaleza, Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective cohort study. At enrollment, multipuncture skin-tests (Multitest CMI) were performed and interpreted according to standard procedures. Children were followed for infectious diseases by weekly home visits. RESULTS: Seventy-one children aged 6 to 21 months were recruited in an ongoing cohort of newborns. A mean of 39 (6 to 63) home visits per child were made, which detected 184.5... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Diarrhea; Acute respiratory infection; Cellular immunity; Skin test; Child. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000600006 |
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