Bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial susceptibility in Kumasi, Ghana

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 450-454

  Ohene, A ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; EAR INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GHANA; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; LUNG INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NOSE INFECTION; PHARYNGITIS; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GHANA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031419931     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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