Multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Poland: Identification of emerging clones

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1739-1745

  Overweg, Karin ^a   Hermans, Peter W M ^a,c   Trzcinski, Krzysztof ^b   Sluijter, Marcel ^a   De Groot, Ronald ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Sera & Vaccines Central Research Laboratory Warszawa   (Poland)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SPARFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032938397     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1739-1745.1999     Document Type: Article

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