The emergence of antibiotic resistance in typhoid fever

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 67-74

  Cooke, Fiona J ^a   Wain, John ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Enteric fever; Microbiology; Plasmids; Review; Salmonella typhi

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; TYPHOID VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG CHOICE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 3543048880     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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