Streptococcus pneumoniae blood culture isolates from patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection: Alterations in penicillin susceptibilities and in serogroups or serotypes

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1165-1172

  Crewe Brown, Heather H ^a   Karstaedt, Alan S ^b   Lance Saunders, G ^b   Khoosal, Manikant ^b   Jones, Nicola ^b   Wasas, Avril ^b   Klugman, Keith P ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPE; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030731080     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516104     Document Type: Article

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