Drug susceptibility of neisseria isolates from patients attending clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Addis Ababa

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 447-449

  Meless, H ^a,c   Abegaze, B ^b  

^a Ethiopian Health Nutrition and Research Institute   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRA; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SEROTYPING; URBAN HEALTH;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0031411151     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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