Emerging resistance to antimicrobial agents in gram-positive bacteria: Pneumococci

Drugs

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 1-5

  Appelbaum, Peter C ^a,b  

^a University Hospital

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFACLOR; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPROZIL; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINAFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GREPAFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SITAFLOXACIN; SPARFLOXACIN; STREPTOGRAMIN; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TROVAFLOXACIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; DRUG CHOICE; EPILEPSY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; LACTAMS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; QUINOLONES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

EID: 0029931116     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199600511-00003     Document Type: Article

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