Antibiotic susceptibility of α- and nonhemolytic streptococci from patients and healthy adults to 24 antimicrobial drugs

Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-131

  Traub, Walter H ^a   Leonhard, Birgit ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agar dilution method; Agar disk diffusion test; Antibiotic susceptibility; Nonhemolytic streptococci; Streptococcus mitis; Hemolytic streptococci

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEFUROXIME; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LACTAMS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0031053237     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: 14219794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000239546     Document Type: Article

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