Typhoid fever: A global overview

Medical Journal of Indonesia

Volumn 7, Issue , 1998, Pages 5-8

  Ivanoff, Bernard ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMAZINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TYPHOID VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION;

EID: 85008722251     PISSN: 08531773     EISSN: 22528083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13181/mji.v7iSupp1.1076     Document Type: Article

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