Pneumococcal resistance in the UK

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue SUPPL. A, 1997, Pages 11-18

  Goldsmith, Colin E ^a   Moore, John E ^a   Murphy, Philip G ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GREPAFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; HUNGARY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SCREENING TEST; SOUTH AFRICA; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NORTHERN IRELAND; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; PIPERAZINES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; QUINOLONES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0031461597     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/40.suppl_1.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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