A five-year antimicrobial resistance pattern of Shigella isolated from stools in the Gondar University hospital, northwest Ethiopia

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-45

  Yismaw, Gizachew ^a   Negeri, Challa ^a   Kassu, Afework ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; FECES; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHIGELLA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ETHIOPIA; FECES; HUMANS; SHIGELLA;

EID: 43049180075     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2007.060215     Document Type: Article

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