Spread of the serotype 23F multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae clone to South Korea

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-109

  Tarasi, Agapito ^a,b   Chong, Yunsop ^c   Lee, Kyungwon ^c   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; PENICILLIN V; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SOUTH KOREA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030945168     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.105     Document Type: Article

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