How much more research is required to prevent cholera?

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 612-614

  Balakrish Nair, G ^a  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA VACCINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DRINKING WATER; FURAZOLIDONE; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DRUG CHOICE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FLUID THERAPY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEA FOOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

CHOLERA; CHOLERA VACCINES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SEASONS;

EID: 34547541324     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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