COCHRANE INFECTIOUS DISEASES GROUP abstracts

COCHRANE INFECTIOUS DISEASES GROUP

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The Cochrane Library Issue 3, 2003

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Albendazole for lymphatic filariasis (Cochrane Protocol)
Antibiotics for treating acute diarrhoea caused by shigella (Cochrane Protocol)
Antibiotics for treating cholera (Cochrane Protocol)
Antimalarial drugs given at regular intervals for preventing clinical malaria and severe anaemia in preschool children (Cochrane Protocol)
Antimicrobial agents for eradicating methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization (Cochrane Protocol)
Antimotility drugs for managing acute diarrhoea in adults (Cochrane Protocol)
Antimotility drugs for managing acute diarrhoea in children (Cochrane Protocol)
Arteether for treating severe malaria (Cochrane Protocol)
Artesunate combinations for treating uncomplicated malaria: a prospective individual patient data meta-analysis (Cochrane Protocol)
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for preventing tuberculosis (Cochrane Protocol)
Beta lactam monotherapy versus beta lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for treating sepsis (Cochrane Protocol)
Chlorproguanil-dapsone for treating uncomplicated malaria (Cochrane Protocol)
Corticosteroid treatment for septic shock (Cochrane Protocol)
Corticosteroids for treating dengue shock syndrome (Cochrane Protocol)
Diethylcarbamazine (DEC)-medicated salt for community-based control of lymphatic filariasis (Cochrane Protocol)
Drugs and other methods for managing fever in children (Cochrane Protocol)
Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea (Cochrane Protocol)
Human recombinant activated protein C for severe sepsis (Cochrane Protocol)
Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy (Cochrane Protocol)
Interventions for treating amoebiasis (Cochrane Protocol)
Oral rehydration versus intravenous rehydration therapy for treating dehydration due to gastroenteritis in children (Cochrane Protocol)
Primaquine for preventing relapses in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria (Cochrane Protocol)
Probiotics for treating infectious diarrhoea (Cochrane Protocol)
Rectal quinine for treating Plasmodium falciparum malaria (Cochrane Protocol)
Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating cholera (Cochrane Protocol)
Rotavirus vaccine for preventing diarrhoea (Cochrane Protocol)
Vaccines for preventing Japanese encephalitis (Cochrane Protocol)

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