Bacterial enteric pathogens in children with acute dysentery in thailand: Increasing importance of quinolone-resistant Campylobacter

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 752-757

  Bodhidatta, L ^a   Vithayasai, N ^b   Eimpokalarp, B ^c   Pitarangsi, C ^a   Serichantalergs, O ^a   Isenbarger, D W ^d  

^a ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^b QUEEN SIRIKIT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH   (Thailand)

^c Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute   (Thailand)

^d WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MACROLIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; DYSENTERY; FECES; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLOSIS; THAILAND; VOMITING;

4-QUINOLONES; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FECES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROLIDES; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; THAILAND; VOMITING;

EID: 0043202842     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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