Nosocomial streptococcal blood stream infections in the SCOPE Program: Species occurrence and antimicrobial resistance

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 259-263

  Pfaller, Michael A ^a   Jones, Ronald N ^a   Marshall, Steven A ^a   Edmond, Michael B ^b   Wenzel, Richard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFTRIAXONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031406951     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00159-4     Document Type: Article

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