The apparent importation of penicillin-resistant capsular type 14 Spanish/French clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae into Uruguay in the early 1990s

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-224

  Camou, Teresa ^a,c   Hortal, María ^a   Tomasz, Alexander ^b  

^a Central Public Health Laboratory   (Uruguay)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Reference Laboratory of Public Health   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; URUGUAY;

EID: 0031772154     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.219     Document Type: Article

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