Public health significance of shigellosis

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 269-270

  Bhattacharya, Sujit K ^a   Sur, Dipika ^b   Mahalanabis, Dilip ^a  

^a SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SHIGELLA VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ASIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BANGLADESH; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHINA; CONVULSION; CROWDING; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; HAND WASHING; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INDIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LOOSE FECES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; TENESMUS;

BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; HUMANS; INDIA; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84863090891     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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