Aminoglycoside resistance. Enzymatic mechanisms in clinical bacterial strains in Slovakia during the last decade

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-94

  Kallová, Janka ^a   Kettner, Milan ^a   Mačičková, Tatiana ^b   Miloševič, Peter ^c   Langšádl, Leon ^d  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c State Public Health Institute of the Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^d National Institute of Public Health   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Aminoglycoside; Gram negative bacilli; Resistance

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; GENTAMICIN; ISEPAMICIN; NETILMICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENZYMES; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0030850252     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(97)00072-2     Document Type: Article

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