Marked differences in pneumococcal carriage and resistance patterns between day care centers located within a small area

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1274-1280

  Givon Lavi, Noga ^a   Dagan, Ron ^a   Fraser, Drora ^a   Yagupsky, Pablo ^a,b   Porat, Nurith ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE CARRIER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CARRIER STATE; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033505840     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313465     Document Type: Article

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