Distributional patterns of bacterial diarrhoeagenic agents and antibiograms of isolates from diarrhoeaic and non-diarrhoeaic patients in urban and rural areas of Nigeria

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 223-229

  Obi, C L ^a,e   Coker, A O ^c   Epoke, J ^d   Ndip, R N ^b  

^a DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c Depts Med Microbiol Parasitol   (Nigeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; RURAL AREA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; URBAN AREA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0032467175     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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