Isolation and drug-resistant patterns of Campylobacter strains cultured from diarrheic children in Tehran

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 217-219

  Feizabadi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Dolatabadi, Samaneh ^a,c   Zali, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLATING MEDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34548400857     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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