Study to determine the ability of clinical laboratories to detect antimicrobial-resistant enterococcus spp. in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-109

  Cookson, Susan Temporado ^g   Lopardo, Horacio ^a   Marin, Marcelo ^b   Arduino, Roberto ^b   Rial, María José ^c   Altschuler, Marta ^d   Galanternik, Laura ^e   Swenson, Jana M ^g   Tokars, Jerome I ^g   Jarvis, William R ^f  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Estudios Infectologicos   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL DE NIÑOS PEDRO DE ELIZALDE   (Argentina)

^d Hospital de Ninos Sor Maria Ludovica   (Argentina)

^e HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIFFUSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0030782057     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00099-0     Document Type: Article

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