Forthcoming  Issue Vol. 19 no. 2 Aetiology of acute gastroenteritis in children <13 years needing acute resuscitation on admission to a tertiary public children’s hospital from 2014 - 2017: A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study of 87 children

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Dr Linos Sibanda
Associate Professor Diana Hardie
Associate Professor Heloise Buys

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Forthcoming  Issue Vol. 19 no. 2: Aetiology of acute gastroenteritis in children <13 years needing acute resuscitation on admission to a tertiary public children’s hospital from 2014 - 2017: A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study of 87 children. (2025). South African Journal of Child Health, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.7196/
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Dr Linos Sibanda, University of Cape Town

First Author

Paediatrician

Mpilo Children's Hospital 

Bulawayo

Lecturer

National University of Science & Technology

Bulawayo

Zimbabwe

Department of Paediatrics & Child Health

University of Cape Town

 

Associate Professor Diana Hardie, University of Cape Town

Principle Clinical Virologist

Division of Medical Virology

University of Cape Town and

Virology Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Services

Groote Schuur Hospital

Cape Town

Associate Professor Heloise Buys, University of Cape Town

Senior Author(last)

Head of Clinical Unit Ambulatory & Emergency Paediatrics

Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital

Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health

University of Cape Town

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Forthcoming  Issue Vol. 19 no. 2: Aetiology of acute gastroenteritis in children <13 years needing acute resuscitation on admission to a tertiary public children’s hospital from 2014 - 2017: A retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study of 87 children. (2025). South African Journal of Child Health, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.7196/

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