A case of nosocomial cholera during a community outbreak in a Thai-Myanmar border area

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1112-1114

  Swaddiwudhipong, Witaya ^a   Peanumlom, Pongpot ^a  

^a MAE SOT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Cholera; Nosocomial infection; Tube fed diet

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHOLERA; CRANIOTOMY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MYANMAR; NOSE FEEDING; THAILAND; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

AGED; CHOLERA; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; MYANMAR; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77958047142     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: 01252208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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