Typhoid fever among children, ghana

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1796-1797

  Marks, Florian ^a   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^b   Hünger, Frank ^c   Sarpong, Nimako ^c   Ekuban, Samuel ^c   Agyekum, Alex ^c   Nkrumah, Bernard ^c   Schwarz, Norbert G ^d   Favorov, Michael O ^a   Meyer, Christian G ^d   May, Jürgen ^d  

^a International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 77958523829     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1611.100388     Document Type: Letter

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