Cholera in children in Karachi from 1990 through 1995: A study of cases admitted to a tertiary care hospital

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 171-173

  Nizami, S Q ^a   Farooqui, B J ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; ERYTHROMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLERA; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PAKISTAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SANITATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER SUPPLY;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; SANITATION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0032089039     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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