Enteric fever in Mediterranean North Africa

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 753-761

  Ghenghesh, Khalifa Sifaw ^a   Franka, Ezzedin ^a   Tawil, Khaled ^a   Wasfy, Momtaz O ^b   Ahmed, Salwa F ^b   Rubino, Salvatore ^c   Klena, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Paratyphoid; Salmonella; Tunisia; Typhoid

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PEFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TYPHOID VACCINE;

ALGERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG COST; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MOROCCO; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NORTH AFRICA; PARATYPHOID FEVER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI B; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRAVEL; TUNISIA; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 73649092373     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.606     Document Type: Review

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