Shigella infections

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-114

  Shears, P ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ENDOTOXIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; SHIGA TOXIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CENTRAL AFRICA; COLON DISEASE; CONVULSION; CROWDING; DISASTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSENTERY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; TROPICS; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0029873887     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1996.11813034     Document Type: Review

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