Multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica, democratic republic of the Congo

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1693-1694

  Phoba, Marie France ^a   Lunguya, Octavie ^a   Mayimon, Daniel Vita ^a   di Mputu, Pantaléon Lewo ^a   Bertrand, Sophie ^b   Vanhoof, Raymond ^c   Verhaegen, Jan ^d   van Geet, Chris ^e   Muyembe, Jean Jacques ^f   Jacobs, Jan ^g  

^a Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo   (Belgium)

^b University Hospital of Kinshasa   (Belgium)

^c Department of Radiology   (Belgium)

^d Democratic Republic of the Congo ^*  (Belgium)

^e SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; QUINOLONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; TYPHOID FEVER; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84866549652     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1810.120525     Document Type: Letter

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