Drug resistance in salmonella enteric ser. Typhimurium bloodstream infection, Malawi

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1957-1959

  Feasey, Nicholas A ^a,b,c   Cain, Amy K ^b   Msefula, Chisomo L ^c   Pickard, Derek ^b   Alaerts, Maaike ^c   Aslett, Martin ^b   Everett, Dean B ^c,d   Allain, Theresa J ^c   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Gordon, Melita A ^d   Heyderman, Robert S ^a,c   Kingsley, Robert A ^b,e  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CASE REPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LETTER; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALAWI; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXED INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COINFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84908105801     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2011.141175     Document Type: Letter

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