Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis, Japan [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1650-1651

  Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Nojiri, Naomi ^a   Hashiwata, Yoshiko ^b   Tamura, Kazumichi ^a   Terajima, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima City Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0344738828     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0912.030172     Document Type: Letter

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