Susceptibility pattern of uropathogenic gram negative bacilli to antimicrobial chemotherapeutic agents in a National Hospital in Dar es Salaam

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 162-165

  Urassa, W K ^a,b   Mwakagile, D ^a   Mohammed, K ^a   Msangi, V ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; GENTAMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; KLEBSIELLA; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PROTEUS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TANZANIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TANZANIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030813553     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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