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An epidemic of acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis in Armenia

Anastasia Sarkissian; Martin Papazian; G. Azatian; N. Arikiants; Ara Babloyan, and Ernst Leumann · 1997

Catalogue summary

This observational pediatric study documents a sharp rise in acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis among hospitalized children in Armenia during 1992–96, relating the outbreak to deteriorating living conditions.

Why this matters

It supplies a concrete Armenia-specific public-health record from the post-Soviet transition and foregrounds how socioeconomic disruption can affect child health.

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Published in

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Year

1997

Language

English

DOI

10.1136/adc.77.4.342

Citation

Anastasia Sarkissian; Martin Papazian; G. Azatian; N. Arikiants; Ara Babloyan, and Ernst Leumann 1997. An epidemic of acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis in Armenia. Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.77.4.342

Topics

Society, science, and public health

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