Campylobacter enteritis in children in an urban community

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 172-175

  Simango, C ^a   Nyahanana, M ^a  

^a UNIV OF ZIMBABWE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ZIMBABWE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTERITIS; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; URBAN HEALTH; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031435824     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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