Aetiology of shigellosis in Northern Pakistan

Journal of Health Population and Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-39

  Ahmed, Khalil ^a   Shakoori, Farah R ^b   Shakoori, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacillary; Dysentery; Pakistan; Plasmids; Shigella

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PLASMIDS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SP.;

EID: 0038664208     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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