Possible prevalence and transmission of acute respiratory tract infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae among the internally displaced persons in tsunami disaster evacuation camps of Sri Lanka

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1395-1402

  Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a,d   Batuwanthudawe, Ranjith ^b   Thevanesam, Vasanthi ^c   Kaji, Chiharu ^a   Qin, Liang ^a   Nishikiori, Nobuyuki ^a   Saito, Wakano ^a   Saito, Mariko ^a   Watanabe, Kiwao ^a   Oishi, Kazunori ^a   Abeysinghe, Nihal ^b   Kunii, Osamu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory tract infection; Evacuation camp; Haemophilus influenzae; Internally displaced persons; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFACLOR; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISASTER PLANNING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SRI LANKA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TSUNAMI; ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISASTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFUGEE; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFUGEES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 34548725058     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0149     Document Type: Article

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