Community-acquired septicaemia in southern Viet Nam: The importance of multidrug-resistant Salmonella typhi

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 503-508

  Hoa, Nguyen Thi Tuyet ^a   Diep, To Song ^a   Wain, John ^a,b   Parry, Christopher M ^a,b,c   Hien, Tran Tinh ^a   Smith, Michael D ^a,b   Walsh, Amanda L ^a,b   White, Nicholas J ^a,b  

^a CHO QUAN HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Tropical Diseases Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Aeromonas hydrophila; Ampicillin; Ceftazidime; Ceftriaxone; Cryptococcus neoformans; Drug resistance; Escherichia coli; Haemophilus influenzae; Klebsiella spp.; Neisseria meningitidis; Prevalence; Proteus mirabilis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Salmonella cholerasuis; Salmonella paratyphi A; Salmonella spp.; Salmonella typhi; Septicaemia; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus bovis; Streptococcus milleri; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Streptococcus pyogenes; Streptococcus sanguis; Streptococcus suis; haemolytic streptococci

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NALIDIXIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPHOID FEVER; VIET NAM;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA; MIRABILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA CHOLERASUIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 0031733832     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90891-4     Document Type: Article

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