Routine use of antimicrobial drugs during the 2004 cholera epidemic in Douala, Cameroon
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Routine use of antimicrobial drugs during the 2004 cholera epidemic in Douala, Cameroon.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate routine use of antimicrobial drugs for treatment and prevention of cholera with special regards to the evolution of the antimicrobial drug resistance patterns of V. cholerae strains. DESIGN Retrospective population-based descriptive study. SUBJECTS Four thousand nine hundred and forty one notified cholera cases, their 15,381 patients' guards and their 159,263 househol...
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Antimicrobial drugs for treating cholera
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عنوان ژورنال: East African Medical Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0012-835X
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v83i11.9475