Bacteremia and antimicrobial drug resistance over time, Ghana

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1879-1882

  Groß, Uwe ^a   Amuzu, Sylvarius K ^b   de Ciman, Ring ^c   Kassimova, Iparkhan ^d   Groß, Lisa ^a   Rabsch, Wolfgang ^e   Rosenberg, Ulrike ^f   Schulze, Marco ^g   Stich, August ^g   Zimmermann, Ortrud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Holy Family Hospital   (Ghana)

^c St Francis Xavier Hospital   (Ghana)

^d St Martin's des Porres Hospital   (Ghana)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f HELIOS Hospital   (Germany)

^g Medical Mission Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CHOICE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PSEUDOMONAS; RURAL AREA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEASONAL VARIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 84930482718     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/edi1710.110327     Document Type: Article

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