Drug resistant typhoid fever

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 235-237

  Khosla, S N ^a   Saman, Ashok ^a   Khosla, P ^a   Sabharwal, Uma ^a   Khosla, Amit ^a  

^a POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SEX RATIO; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOXEMIA; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0031696524     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947559802800419     Document Type: Article

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