Campylobacter jejuni in hospitalized patients with diarrhea, Kolkata, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1155-1156

  Mukherjee, Piyali ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Bhattacharya, Mihir K ^a   Rajendran, K ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BACITRACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; DIARRHEA; DISK DIFFUSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; LETTER; MICROBIOME; MIXED INFECTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE; BACTERIA; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIARRHEA; INDIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING;

EID: 84879179646     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1907.121278     Document Type: Letter

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