Characteristics of typhoid fever in children and adolescents in a major metropolitan area in the United States

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 998-1000

  Misra, Sonya ^b   Diaz, Pamela S ^b   Rowley, Anne H ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; FOOD HANDLING; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

EID: 0030893863     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.5.998     Document Type: Article

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