Enteric Fever: A retrospective 6-year analysis of 82 paediatric cases in a teaching hospital

Kathmandu University Medical Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 181-187

  Malla, Tejesh ^a   Malla, K K ^a   Thapalial, A ^a   Shaw, C ^a  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Enteric fever; Salmonella infections

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CARBENICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COATED TONGUE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGOR; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TYPHOID FEVER; WIDAL REACTION;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; NEPAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 41849114216     PISSN: 18122027     EISSN: 18122078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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