Unusual increase in reported cases of paratyphoid a fever among travellers returning from cambodia, january to september 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 39, 2013, Pages

  Tourdjman, M ^a   le Hello, S ^b   Gossner, C ^c   Delmas, G ^a   Tubiana, S ^a   Fabre, L ^b   Kerleguer A ^d   Tarantola, A ^d   Fruth, A ^e   Friesema, I ^f   Thorstensen Brandal, L ^g   Lawrence, J ^h   Fisher, I ^h   Dufour, M ⁱ   Weill, F X ^b   de Valk, H ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b Shigella et Salmonella WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Salmonella   (France)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^h PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISK DIFFUSION; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORBIDITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOTE; PARATYPHOID FEVER; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; TRAVEL;

EID: 84884745689     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.39.20594     Document Type: Note

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