Isolation of Salmonella and Shigella from fish harvested from the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-104

  David, Onyango Miruka ^a,b   Wandili, Sarah ^a   Kakai, Rose ^b   Waindi, Eliud Nyandago ^a  

^a School of Public Health and Community   (Kenya)

^b MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Fish; Kenya; Nile tilapia; Salmonella; Shigella; Winam Gulf

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; STORM WATER; WATER;

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH; FISHERMAN; FISHING; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; KENYA; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TILAPIA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA;

EID: 66249122802     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.56     Document Type: Article

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