Susceptibilities of penicillin- and erythromycin-susceptible and - resistant pneumococci to HMR 3647 (RU 66647), a new ketolide, compared with susceptibilities to 17 other agents

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 624-630

  Pankuch, G A ^a   Visalli, M A ^a   Jacobs, M R ^b   Appelbaum, P C ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; ROKITAMYCIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPARFLOXACIN; TELITHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031942622     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.3.624     Document Type: Article

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