Synergistic effect of gentamicin plus ampicillin on enterococci with differing sensitivity to gentamicin: A phenotypic assessment of NCCLS guidelines

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-225

  Dressel, Dana C ^a   Tornatore Reuscher, Michelle A ^b   Boschman, Cynthia R ^a,b   Stosor, Valentina ^a,b   Zembower, Teresa ^a,b   Postelnick, Michael J ^a   Noskin, Gary A ^a,b   Peterson, Lance R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032777394     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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