International collaboration tracks typhoid fever cases over two continents from South Africa to Australia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1405-1407

  Smith, Anthony M ^a,b   Keddy, Karen H ^a,b   Ismail, Husna ^a,b   Thomas, Juno ^c   van der Gryp, Rina ^d   Manamela, Morubula J ^c   Huma, Mmampedi ^e   Sooka, Arvinda ^a   Theobald, Lisa K ^f   Mennen, Maria A ^g   O'Reilly, Lyn C ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^d Health and Social Development Department   (South Africa)

^e NHLS   (South Africa)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g LANCET LABORATORIES   (South Africa)

^h PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENOMIC DNA; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPSILOMETER TEST; FOOD POISONING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOM; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SOUTH AFRICA; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 80051820335     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.030700-0     Document Type: Note

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