Characterization of cholera outbreak isolates from Namibia, December 2006 to February 2007

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1207-1209

  Smith, Anthony M ^a   Keddy, K H ^a   De Wee, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; CHILD; CHOLERA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; EPSILOMETER TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NAMIBIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 48249140216     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009685     Document Type: Article

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