Genotypic analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi collected during two successive autumnal typhoid outbreaks in southeast Tunisia

Pathologie Biologie

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 336-339

  Ben Saida, N ^a   Mhalla, S ^a   Bouzouia N ^b   Boukadida, J ^a  

^a FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Outbreak; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi; Southeast Tunisia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN AVRII; PROTEIN SPEI; PROTEIN XBAI; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA TYPHI; TUNISIA; TYPHOID FEVER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEASON;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEASONS; TUNISIA; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 34548483233     PISSN: 03698114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patbio.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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