Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: The beginning of the end for many antibiotics?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 64-67

  Collignon, Peter J ^a   Bell, Jan M ^b  

^a WODEN VALLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030054352     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb101349.x     Document Type: Article

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