Introduction: Problems with antimicrobial resistance in gram-positive cocci

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1177-1178

  Moellering Jr , Robert C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032063955     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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