Nasopharyngeal carriage of community-acquired, antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Zambian paediatric population

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 453-462

  Woolfson, A ^a,b   Huebner, R ^c   Wasas, A ^c   Chola, S ^d,e   Godfrey Faussett, P ^d,f   Klugman, K ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^e TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH CENTRE   (Zambia)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ZAMBIA;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBIOTICS--THERAPEUTIC USE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD SURVIVAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; DRUGS; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; HEALTH; INFECTIONS; LENGTH OF LIFE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS; SURVIVORSHIP; TREATMENT; YOUTH; ZAMBIA;

AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASOPHARYNX; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0031471046     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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