Foodborne-associated Shigella Sonnei, India, 2009 and 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2072-2074

  Nandy, Suman ^a   Dutta, Shanta ^a   Ghosh, Santanu ^a   Ganai, Arindam ^a   Rajahamsan, Jyothi ^b   Theodore, Ramani Bai Josef ^b   Sheikh, Nasira K ^c  

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

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c Government Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; VOMITING;

EID: 84930479645     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1711.110403     Document Type: Letter

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