Shigella dysenteriae Serotype 1, Kolkata, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1471-1474

  Dutta, Shanta ^a   Dutta, Dharitri ^a   Dutta, Phalguni ^a   Matsushita, Shigeru ^b   Bhattacharya, Sujit Kumar ^a   Yoshida, Shin Ichi ^c  

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

^b Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INDIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLOSIS;

EID: 0242292069     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0911.020652     Document Type: Article

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