High nasopharyngeal carriage of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae in North Indian schoolchildren

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 234-239

  Jain, Amita ^a   Kumar, Pradeep ^a   Awasthi, Shally ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anti microbial resistance; Haemophilus influenzae; Nasopharyngeal carriage; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXACILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTICS; DRUG PRESCRIBING; DRUG RESISTANCE; INFLUENZA; PNEUMONIA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; URBAN AREA;

CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RURAL HEALTH; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URBAN HEALTH;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 15244341657     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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