The enduring pneumococcus: Unfinished business and opportunities for the future

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-115

  Austrian, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AGGLUTININ; ANTIBODY; CHOLINE; DEOXYGALACTOSE; DETERGENT; DIVALENT CATION; ENZYME; ETHANOLAMINE; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; GALACTOSAMINE; GLUCOSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PNEUMOLYSIN; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE; RIBITOL; RODENTICIDE; SULFAPYRIDINE; SULFONAMIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE; HUMAN; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PNEUMOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030902835     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.111     Document Type: Review

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