Carriage of internationally spread clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae with unusual drug resistance patterns in children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1153-1160

  Sá Leão, Raquel ^a,b   Tomasz, Alexander ^b   Sanches, Ilda Santos ^a   Brito Avô, António ^a   Vilhelmsson, Sigurdur E ^b,c   Kristinsson, Karl G ^c   De Lencastre, Herminia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center   (United Kingdom)

^c National University Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DAY CARE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIBIOTICS, MACROLIDE; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PORTUGAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033805294     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315813     Document Type: Article

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