Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-39

  Knapp, Joan S ^a   Fox, Kimberley K ^a   Trees, David L ^a   Whittington, William L ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OFLOXACIN; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0030624654     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0301.970104     Document Type: Article

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