Activities of HMR 3004 (RU 64004) and HMR 3647 (RU 66647) compared to those of erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, and eight other antimicrobial agents against unusual aerobic and anaerobic human and animal bite pathogens isolated from skin and soft tissue infections in humans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1127-1132

  Goldstein, Ellie J C ^a,b,c   Citron, Diane M ^a   Gerardo, Sharon Hunt ^a   Hudspeth, Marie ^a   Merriam, C Vreni ^a  

^a Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; HMR 3004; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; ROXITHROMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACILLUS; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; FUSOBACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

EID: 0031960210     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.5.1127     Document Type: Article

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