Ceftazidime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates recovered at the Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 118-124

  Rice, Louis B ^a   Eckstein, Elizabeth C ^b   DeVente, Jerome ^b   Shlaes, David M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; PIPERACILLIN; TAZOBACTAM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 0029835539     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.1.118     Document Type: Article

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