Multidrug resistant typhoid fever outbreak in Ercek Village - Van, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey: Clinical profile, sensitivity patterns and response to antimicrobials

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-162

  Aypak, Adalet ^a   Çelik, Ali Kutta ^a   Aypak, Cenk ^b   Çikman, Öztekin ^c  

^a Van Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Gevas Hospital   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); TYPHOID FEVER;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 77954409108     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2010.090438     Document Type: Article

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