The Microbiological and Clinical Characteristics of Invasive Salmonella in Gallbladders from Cholecystectomy Patients in Kathmandu, Nepal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Dongol, Sabina ^a   Thompson, Corinne N ^a,b   Clare, Simon ^c   Nga, Tran Vu Thieu ^a   Duy, Pham Thanh ^a   Karkey, Abhilasha ^a   Arjyal, Amit ^a   Koirala, Samir ^a   Khatri, Nely Shrestha ^a   Maskey, Pukar ^d   Poudel, Sanjay ^d   Jaiswal, Vijay Kumar ^d   Vaidya, Sujan ^d   Dougan, Gordon ^c   Farrar, Jeremy J ^a,b   Dolecek, Christiane ^a,b   Basnyat, Buddha ^a   Baker, Stephen ^a,b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d PATAN HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILE; CHILD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEPAL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84867527610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047342     Document Type: Article

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