Antimicrobial resistance in organisms causing diarrheal disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Sack, R Bradley ^a   Rahman, Mahbubur ^b   Yunus, M ^b   Khan, Eradul H ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DYSENTERY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031031725     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.supplement_1.s102     Document Type: Article

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