High rate of resistance to locally used antibiotics among enteric bacteria from children in Northern Ghana

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1315-1318

  Djie Maletz, Andrea ^a   Reither, Klaus ^a,b,c   Danour, Stephen ^d   Anyidoho, Louis ^e   Saad, Eiman ^a,c   Danikuu, Francis ^e   Ziniel, Peter ^c   Weitzel, Thomas ^a   Wagner, Jutta ^a   Bienzle, Ulrich ^a   Stark, Klaus ^f   Seidu korkor, Andrew ^d   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^a   Ignatius, Ralf ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Northern Region Malaria Project   (Ghana)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^f ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

E. coli; Salmonella; Shigella

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MEZLOCILLIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BROTH DILUTION; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 44449121762     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn108     Document Type: Article

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