An outbreak of multidrug-resistant, quinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium DT104

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 1420-1425

  Mølbak, Kåre ^a   Baggesen, Dorte Lau ^b   Aarestrup, Frank Møller ^b   Ebbesen, Jens Munk ^c   Engberg, Jørgen ^a   Frydendahl, Kai ^b   Gerner Smidt, Peter ^a   Petersen, Andreas Munk ^a   Wegener, Henrik C ^d  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Inst of Food Research and Nutrition   (Denmark)

^d Danish Zoonosis Centre   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALIDIXIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENMARK; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUINOLONES; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SWINE;

EID: 0033523872     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199911043411902     Document Type: Article

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