Penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Colombia: Presence of international epidemic clones

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-239

  Castañeda, Elizabeth ^a   Peñuela, Ingrid ^a   Vela, Maria Claudia ^a   Tomasz, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLOMBIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031742057     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.233     Document Type: Article

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