The prevalence and clonal expansion of high-level gentamicin-resistant enterococci isolated from blood cultures in a Dutch university hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 795-798

  Van Den Braak, Nicole ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Kreft, Deborah ^a   Te Witt, René ^a   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a   Endtz, Hubert Ph ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0032763697     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/44.6.795     Document Type: Article

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