Trends of multiple-drug resistance among Salmonella serotype Typhi isolates during a 14-year period in Egypt

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1265-1268

  Wasfy, Momtaz O ^a   Frenck, Robert ^a   Ismail, Tharwat F ^a   Mansour, Hoda ^b   Malone, Joseph L ^a   Mahoney, Frank J ^a,c  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b ABBASSIA FEVER HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EGYPT; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPE; TYPHOID FEVER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EGYPT; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SALMONELLA; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0037111557     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343052     Document Type: Article

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