Impact of antibiotic resistance on chemotherapy for pneumococcal infections

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 339-347

  Pallares, Roman ^a,b   Viladrich, Pedro F ^a   Liñares, Josefina ^a   Cabellos, Carmen ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFACLOR; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032436599     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.339     Document Type: Article

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