Aminoglycoside resistance among Danish blood culture isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci

APMIS

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 873-880

  Busch Sørensen, Charlotte ^a   Frimodt Møller, Niels ^a   Miller, George H ^b   Espersen, Frank ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

aminoglycoside resistance; aminoglycoside modifying enzymes; coagulase negative staphylococci

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; NETILMICIN; SISOMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 0030498347     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1996.tb04952.x     Document Type: Article

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