Recovery of small colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus following gentamicin bead placement for osteomyelitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1250-1251

  Von Eiff, Christof ^a   Bettin, Dieter ^b   Proctor, Richard A ^b   Rolauffs, Bernd ^b   Lindner, Norbert ^b   Winkelmann, Winfried ^b   Peters, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MENADIONE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030815387     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516962     Document Type: Article

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