A multicenter study of the antimicrobial susceptibility of community-acquired lower respiratory tract pathogens in the United States, 1992-1994. The Alexander Project

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 183-190

  Washington, John A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DATA COLLECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030220478     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(96)00128-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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