Resistance to third-generation cephalosporins in adult gram-negative bacillary meningitis

Infection

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 208-211

  Lu, C H ^a   Chang, W N ^a   Chuang, Y C ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MORGANELLA MORGANII;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEPHALOSPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033038992     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02561530     Document Type: Article

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