Changing resistance pattern of Shigella isolates in a Delhi hospital: An alarming trend [4]

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-200

  Uppal, B ^a   Arora, V M ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS;

EID: 4444269843     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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