Nasopharyngeal carriage of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in institutionalized HIV-infected and HIV-negative children in northeastern Romania

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 211-215

  Leibovitz, Eugene ^a   Dragomir, Cristiana ^b   Sfartz, Seli ^b   Porat, Nurith ^a   Yagupsky, Pablo ^a   Jica, Simona ^b   Florescu, Liliana ^b   Dagan, Ron ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

HIV; Nasopharynx; Romania; S. pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NASOPHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROMANIA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASOPHARYNX; ORPHANAGES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; ROMANIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032706739     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1201-9712(99)90027-9     Document Type: Article

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