Molecular epidemiology of Shigella flexneri in a diarrhoea-endemic area of Lima, Peru

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 303-316

  Fernandez Prada, C M ^a   Venkatesan, M M ^a   Franco, A A ^b   Lanata, C F ^c   Sack, R B ^b   Hartman, A B ^a   Spira, W ^b  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRISULFAPYRIMIDINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE PROBE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PERU; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 1842450591     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268803001560     Document Type: Article

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