Quantitation of bacteria in blood of typhoid fever patients and relationship between counts and clinical features, transmissibility, and antibiotic resistance

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1683-1687

  Wain, John ^a,b   Diep, To Song ^a   Ho, Vo Anh ^c   Walsh, Amanda M ^a,b   Hoa, Nguyen Thi Tuyet ^a   Parry, Christopher M ^a,b   White, Nicholas J ^a,b,d  

^a CHO QUAN HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Dong Thap Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^d Centre for Tropical Diseases Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SERODIAGNOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 0031969678     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.6.1683-1687.1998     Document Type: Article

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