Pneumococcal resistance to antibiotics

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 171-196

  Klugman, Keith P ^a,b,c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIBIOTICS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0024995124     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.3.2.171     Document Type: Article

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