Resistant pneumococci: Protecting patients through judicious use of antibiotics

American Family Physician

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1647-1654

  Dowell, Scott F ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; PENICILLINS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030983002     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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