Multiresistant serotype O 12 Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Evidence for a common strain in Europe

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 565-576

  Pitt, T L ^a   Livermore, D M ^c   Pitcher, D ^b   Vatopoulos, A C ^d   Legakis, N J ^e  

^a Division of Hospital Infection ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENICILLIN; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EUROPE; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEROTYPE;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBENICILLIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EUROPE; GENTAMICINS; HUMAN; ISOENZYMES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0024831434     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026880003096X     Document Type: Article

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