Antimicrobial susceptibility of community-acquired lower respiratory tract bacterial pathogens isolated in the UK during the 1995-1996 cold season

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 411-415

  Felmingham, David ^a   Robbins, Marion J ^b   Tesfaslasie, Yesework ^c   Harding, Ian ^a   Shrimpton, Susan ^b   Griineberg, Reuben N ^a,b,c,d  

^a GR Micro Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b Marmont Priory Farm

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFACLOR; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEFACLOR; CEPHALOSPORINS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COMMON COLD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GREAT BRITAIN; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PENICILLINS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031948288     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/41.3.411     Document Type: Article

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