Prevalence and patterns of resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated from carriers attending day care centers in the area of athens

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 271-278

  Tsolia, Maria ^a,c   Kouppari, Georgia ^b   Zaphiropoulou, Anthi ^b   Gavrili, Stavroula ^a   Tsirepa, Margarita ^b   Kafetzis, Dimitris ^a   Karpathios, Themistoklis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DAY CARE; GREECE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033369065     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1999.5.271     Document Type: Article

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