Vol. 28 No. 5 (2010)

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Published: 2010-09-23

Commentary

Regional Collaborations as a Way Forward for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: The South Asian Healthcare Professional Workshop

Jennifer H Requejo, Kadidiatou Toure, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Imtiaz Katz, Shahida Zaidi

417-423
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Original Papers

Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Access to Drinking-water and Associated Health Risks in Cameroon

H Blaise Nguendo Yongsi

424-435
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Treatment Costs of Pneumonia, Meningitis, Sepsis, and Other Diseases among Hospitalized Children in Viet Nam

Dang Duc Anh, Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Le Huu Tho, Batmunkh Nyambat

436-442
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Monitoring Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolated from Bangladesh during 1997-2006: Emergence and Pattern of Drug-resistant Isolates

Monir Uddin Ahmed, Faisal Arif Hasan Chawdhury, Maqsud Hossain, Syed Zafar Sultan, Mansur Alam, Gazi Salahuddin, Ashraful Alam, Khairun Nessa, Shamsun Nahar, Shama A-Waris, Anadil Alam, Motiur Rahman

443-449
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Community Participation in Two Vaccination Trials in Slums of Kolkata, India: A Multi-level Analysis

Mohammad Ali, Dipika Sur, Anna Lena Lopez, Suman Kanungo, R Leon Ochiai, Byomkesh Manna, Deok Ryun Kim, Jacqueline Deen, Sujit K Bhattacharya, John D Clemens

450-457
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Vitamin D Status of Infants in Northeastern Rural Bangladesh: Preliminary Observations and a Review of Potential Determinants

Daniel E Roth, M Rashed Shah, Robert E Black, Abdullah H Baqui

458-469
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Comparison of Renal Function and Other Health Outcomes in Vegetarians versus Omnivores in Taiwan

Chih-Kuang Lin, Deng-Juin Lin, Chi-Hwa Yen, Shiuan-Chih Chen, Chun-Chieh Chen, Tsun-Yen Wang, Ming-Chih Chou, Horng-Rong Chang, Meng-Chih Lee

470-475
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Risk Factors Associated with Severe Underweight among Young Children Reporting to a Diarrhoea Treatment Facility in Bangladesh

Baitun Nahar, Tahmeed Ahmed, Kenneth H Brown, Md Iqbal Hossain

476-483
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Assessment of Vitamin A Status of Preschool Children in a Sub-Saharan African Setting: Comparative Advantage of Modified Relative-dose Response Test

C Samba, B Gourmel, P Houze, D Malvy

484-493
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Hospital-based Perinatal Outcomes and Complications in Teenage Pregnancy in India

Prianka Mukhopadhyay, RN Chaudhuri, Bhaskar Paul

494-500
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Reproductive Tract Disorders among Afghan Refugee Women Attending Health Clinics in Haripur, Pakistan

ZP Balsara, I Wu, DR Marsh, AT Ihsan, R Nazir, E Owaso, C Robinson, GL Darmstadt

501-508
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Constructing Indices of Rural Living Standards in Northwestern Bangladesh

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Alain B Labrique, Keith P West, Parul Christian, Sucheta Mehra, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Mahbubur Rashid, Joanne Katz, Rolf DW Klemm

509-519
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Causes of Death of Adults and Elderly and Healthcareseeking before Death in Rural Bangladesh

Nurul Alam, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Monirul Alam Bhuiyan, Peter Kim Streatfield

520-528
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Case studies

Salmonella Typhi and Plasmodium falciparum Co-infection in a 12-year Old Girl with Haemoglobin E Trait from a Non-malarious Area in Bangladesh

Fahmida Chowdhury, Mohammod J Chisti, Ahmadul H Khan, Mohammad A Chowdhury, Mark AC Pietroni

529-531
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