Rapid increase of pneumococcal resistance to β-lactam and other antibiotics in isolates from the respiratory tract (Nagasaki, Japan: 1975-1994)

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 899-905

  Rikitomi, Naoto ^a   Sow, Papa Salif ^b   Watanabe, Kiwao ^a   Nunez, Duilio S ^a   Martinez, Glenda ^a   Nagatake, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Infectious Diseases   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Multiply resistant pneumococcus; Penicillin resistant pneumococcus; Respiratory infection; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

PNEUMOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030458580     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb01158.x     Document Type: Article

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