Streptococcus mitis with unusually high level resistance to β-lactam antibiotics

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-49

  König, Andrea ^a   Reinert, Ralf René ^b   Hakenbeck, Regine ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Universität Kaiserslautern Mikrobiologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031922545     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.45     Document Type: Article

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