Outbreak of multi-drug resistant Salmonella typhi enteric fever in Mumbai garrison

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 148-150

  Misra, R N ^a   Bawa, K S ^a   Magu, S K ^b   Bhandari, S ^c   Nagendra, A ^d   Menon, P K ^a  

^a INHS Asvini ^*

^b Department of Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine   (India)

^c Naval Headquarters   (India)

^d Classified Specialist   (India)

Author keywords

Enteric fever; Multi drug resistant; Phage type; Salmonella typhi

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BLOOD CULTURE; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEUTROPENIA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEROLOGY; SPLENOMEGALY; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 17844392832     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-1237(05)80011-5     Document Type: Article

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