Use of antimicrobials and resistance in bacteria isolated from blood cultures in a Danish county from 1992 to 1995

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 422-430

  Sørensen, Thomas Lund ^a   Frimodt Møller, Niels ^a   Espersen, Frank ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Blood culture isolates; Frequencies; Resistance; Surveillance; Usage

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DENMARK; DRUG USE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031662131     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00389.x     Document Type: Article

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