Molecular epidemiology of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates recovered in Italy from 1993 to 1996

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2944-2949

  Marchese, Anna ^a,b   Ramirez, Mario ^a   Schito, Gian Carlo ^b   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ITALY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031682158     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.10.2944-2949.1998     Document Type: Article

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