Short report: Increasing isolations of neisseria meningitides serogroup a from blood and cerebrospinal fluid in dhaka, bangladesh, 1999-2006

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 615-618

  Hossain, M Anowar ^a,c   Ahmed, Dilruba ^a   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a   Islam, Nazrul ^a   Breiman, Robert F ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; HUMAN; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTEREMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPING;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BANGLADESH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP A; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349136932     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.615     Document Type: Article

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