Antimicrobial susceptibility trends among Escherichia coli and Shigella spp. isolated from rural Egyptian paediatric populations with diarrhoea between 1995 and 2000

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 804-810

  Putnam, S D ^a,g   Riddle, M S ^a   Wierzba, T F ^b,c   Pittner, B T ^d   Elyazeed, R A ^b   El Gendy, A ^b   Rao, M R ^e   Clemens, J D ^f   Frenck, R W ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^f International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^g NAMRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Diarrhoea; Egypt; Escherichia coli; Resistance; Shigella spp.

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EGYPT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SHIGELLA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

EID: 4644237760     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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