Failure of penicillin in Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngeal infection

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9145, 1998, Pages 1954-1956

  Gillespie, S H ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; PENICILLIN V; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0032570179     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61327-X     Document Type: Note

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