Typhoid fever in the United States, 1999-2006

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 859-865

  Lynch, Michael F ^a   Blanton, Elizabeth M ^a   Bulens, Sandra ^a   Polyak, Christina ^a   Vojdani, Jazmin ^a   Stevenson, Jennifer ^a   Medalla, Felicia ^a   Barzilay, Ezra ^a   Joyce, Kevin ^a   Barrett, Timothy ^a   Mintz, Eric Daniel ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTIOFUR; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TYPHOID VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SCHOOL CHILD; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; DRUG EFFECT; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249222884     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1229     Document Type: Article

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