Molecular characterization of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates causing respiratory disease in the United States

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-337

  Corso, A ^a   Severina, E P ^a   Petruk, V F ^a   Mauriz, Y R ^b   Tomasz, A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032413402     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.325     Document Type: Article

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