Major related sets of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in the United States as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and pbp1a-pbp2b- pbp2x-dhf restriction profiles

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 216-229

  Gherardi, Giovanni ^a,b   Whitney, Cynthia G ^a   Facklam, Richard R ^a   Beall, Bernard ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, SWITCH; GENOTYPE; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; LACTAMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033958764     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315194     Document Type: Article

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