Evolving clinical problems with Streptococcus pneumoniae: Increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents, and failure of traditional optochin identification in Chicago, Illinois, between 1993 and 1996

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 209-214

  Borek, Anita P ^a   Dressel, Dana C ^a   Hussong, Jerry ^b   Peterson, Lance R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHYLHYDROCUPREINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA PROBE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHICAGO; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROMYCIN; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; QUININE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SULBACTAM;

EID: 0031423795     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00141-7     Document Type: Article

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