The evolution of resistance to cephalosporins

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 487-493

  Moosdeen, Faridah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFDINIR; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFMENOXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTIBUTEN; CEFTIZOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORINASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTEROIDES; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031028827     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.3.487     Document Type: Article

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