The emergence of Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant to macrolide antimicrobial agents: A 6-year population-based assessment

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1417-1424

  Gay, Kathryn ^a,b   Baughman, Wendy ^a,c   Miller, Yoon ^a,b   Jackson, Delois ^d   Whitney, Cynthia G ^d   Schuchat, Anne ^d   Farley, Monica M ^a,c   Tenover, Fred ^e   Stephens, David S ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center ^*  (Georgia)

^c Georgia Emerging Infections Program   (Georgia)

^d Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Emerging Infections Program Network   (Georgia)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

ANTIBIOTICS, MACROLIDE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033791352     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315853     Document Type: Article

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