β-lactam-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: Epidemiology and evolutionary mechanism

Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-94

  Hakenbeck, Regine ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cephalosporin; Epidemiology; Mosaic genes; Penicillin resistance; Penicillin binding proteins; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G;

BACTERIAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033031086     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000007170     Document Type: Review

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