Enteric fever in a 6-year-old traveler caused by Salmonella enterica serotypes typhi and paratyphi A: Laboratory detection strategies and treatment options

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 452-454

  Humphries, Romney M ^a,b   Yeganeh, Nava ^b   Ward, Kevin W ^b   Lewinski, M A ^a   Ching, Natascha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CITRIC ACID; LEVOFLOXACIN; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULBACTAM; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYALGIA; NECK PAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEROTYPE; TYPHOID FEVER; VOMITING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 78650923285     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01316-10     Document Type: Article

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