Molecular epidemiology of invasive Salmonella typhi in southeast Turkey

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 727-730

  Hosoglu, Salih ^a   Loeb, M ^b   Geyik, M F ^a   Ucmak, H ^a   Jayaratne, P ^b  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; PFGE; Salmonella typhi

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORBIDITY; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; RIBOTYPING; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); TYPHOID FEVER; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 0043028319     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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