Resistance patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae from carriers attending day-care centers in Southwestern Greece

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 188-194

  Syrogiannopoulos, George A ^a   Grivea, Ioanna N ^b   Beratis, Nicholas G ^b   Spiliopoulou, Adamantia E ^b   Fasola, Elizabeth L ^b   Bajaksouzian, Saralee ^b   Appelbaum, Peter C ^b   Jacobs, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LORACARBEF; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DAY CARE; DRUG CHOICE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NASOPHARYNX; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030857698     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514526     Document Type: Article

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