Emergence of multidrug resistance in ubiquitous and dominant Pseudomonas aeruginosa serogroup O:11

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 897-901

  Tassios, Panayotis T ^a   Gennimata, Vassiliki ^a   Maniatis, Anthony N ^a   Fock, Caroline ^a,b   Legakis, Nicholas J ^a   Douboyias, J ^c   Katrahoura, A ^c   Kitsou, S ^c   Koutsia, C ^c   Bethymouti, K ^c   Intzes, K ^d   Dova, S ^c   Oikonomopoulou, C ^c   Paniara, O ^c   Papafrangas, E ^c   Papoutsaki, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AHEPA ^*

^d 401 Military Hospital

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0031919122     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.4.897-901.1998     Document Type: Article

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