Influence of external factors in resistance of Corynebacterium urealyticum to antimicrobial agents

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 497-499

  Garcia Bravo, Moises ^a   Aguado, Jose M ^a,b   Morales, Jose M ^a   Noriega, Antonio R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; ISONIAZID; NORFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0030048715     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.2.497     Document Type: Article

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