AFRO-NETS> PubMed Retrieval System

PubMed Retrieval System
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PubMed is an experimental service of the National Center for Biotechnolog=
y=20
Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed has=20
been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as=
a=20
search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to their full-
text versions at publishers' Web sites. PubMed searches the 9 million=20
citations in MEDLINE supplemented by pre-Medline citations which do not y=
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have MeSH index terms and by citations supplied electronically by=20
publishers.

At the moment the service is experimental and free of charge.

To access the system via the World Wide Web (WWW) direct your browser to:

http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed

and enter the search criteria into the provided forms.

Example:
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You are looking for =91ARI and Nutrition=92. Among others there is a cita=
tion=20
of an article from "Lopez-Alarcon M, Villalpando S, Fajardo A: Breast-
feeding lowers the frequency and duration of acute respiratory infection=20
and diarrhea in infants under six months of age".

By clicking the author=92s name you can download the abstract. At the=20
abstract=92s page there is a button =91J.Nutrition=92. Clicking this butt=
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connects you to the full text article at =91The Journal of Nutrition=92s =
WEB=20
page. If you would like to have a full reprint of the article (looking li=
ke=20
the original publication) you can download it from there as an Adobe=20
Acrobat Document (.pdf format; ca. 330 kB - to be read and printed with t=
he=20
free Acrobat Reader).

Regards,

Dieter Neuvians
mailto:neuvians@harare.iafrica.com

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