Mediterranean clone of penicillin-susceptible, multidrug-resistant serotype 6B Streptococcus pneumoniae in Greece, Italy and Israel

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 219-224

  Syrogiannopoulos, George A ^a   Ronchetti, Francesco ^b   Dagan, Ron ^c   Grivea, Ioanna ^a   Ronchetti, Maria Paola ^b   Porat, Nurith ^c   Davies, Todd A ^d   Ronchetti, Roberto ^b   Appelbaum, Peter C ^d   Jacobs, Michael R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mediterranean clone; Resistance; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; GREECE; ISRAEL; ITALY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GREECE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PENICILLINS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033720493     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-8579(00)00194-1     Document Type: Article

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