Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococci from blood stream infections: Frequency of occurrence, antimicrobial susceptibility, and molecular (mecA) characterization of oxacillin resistance in the SCOPE program

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-214

  Marshall, Steven A ^b   Wilke, Werner W ^b   Pfaller, Michael A ^b   Jones, Ronald N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXACILLIN; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032031106     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00212-5     Document Type: Article

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