Carriage of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli by healthy volunteers during a 15-week period

Infection

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 187-192

  London, Nancy ^a   Nijsten, R ^a   Bogaard, A v d ^a   Stobberingh, E ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APRAMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CARRIER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN;

CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 0028228336     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01716700     Document Type: Article

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