Invasive disease and paediatric carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Ghana

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 254-259

  Donkor, Eric S ^a,b   Newman, Mercy J ^a   Oliver Commey, Joseph ^a   Bannerman, Elizabeth ^a   Dayie, Nicholas T K D ^a   Badoe, Ebenezer V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM MENINGOSEPTICUM; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GHANA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBSPECIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949442962     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903490000     Document Type: Article

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