Multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1: Forerunners of a new epidemic strain in Eastern India? [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 404-405

  Sur, Dipika ^a   Niyogi, Swapan K ^a   Sur, Shravani ^b   Datta, Kamal K ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^c   Balakrish Nair, Gopinath ^d   Bhattacharya, Sujit K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b BURDWAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c JISSEN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; DYSENTERY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLOSIS;

EID: 0037340972     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0903.020352     Document Type: Letter

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