Prevalence of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneurnoniae strains isolated from Brazilian children with invasive infections

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-146

  Brandileone, Maria Cristina De Cunto ^a   Vieira, Vera Simonsen Dias ^a   Casagrande, Silvana Tadeu ^a   Zanella, Rosemeire Cobo ^a   Guerra, Maria Luiza Leopoldo Silva ^a   Bokermann, Sergio ^a   De Moraes, José Cássio ^b   Baldacci, Evandro Roberto ^c   Chamone, Chequer Buffe ^c   Oliveira, Marluce Aparecida Assunção ^c   De Matos, Deize Gomes Cavalcanti ^d   Arruda, Tania Maria Catão ^d   Da Costa Coelho, Marinalva Ferreira ^e   D'Ávila, Suzana Machado ^f   Dos Santos, Ana Rosa ^h   Di Fabio, José Luis ^g  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b Cancer Institute of the State of Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Medical Biology Division   (Brazil)

^e Dr Milton Bezerra Sobral Public Health Laboratory   (Brazil)

^f Maternal and Infantile Institute   (Brazil)

^g Department of Health ^*  (Brazil)

^h PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILE; BRAZIL; CHILD; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030939775     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.141     Document Type: Article

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