Utility of PCR in diagnosing complicated cases of unusual clinical manifestations of Salmonella enterica var. paratyphi A [4]

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 799-800

  Chaudhry, Rama ^a   Chandel, Dinesh S ^a   Pandey, Anita ^a   Dhawan, Benu ^a   Gulati, Vinay ^a   Sood, Rita ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BONE DISEASE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALARIA; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TYPHOID FEVER; VERTEBRA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARATYPHOID FEVER; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A;

EID: 21244468950     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.12.030     Document Type: Letter

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