Penicillin minimum inhibitory concentration drift in identical sequential Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from colonized healthy infants

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 191-194

  Sisson, Barbara A ^a,d   Buck, George ^c   Franco, Sofia M ^a   Goldsmith, Linda J ^b   Rabalais, Gerard P ^a  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Norton Health Care   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; DRUG ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NASOPHARYNX; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASOPHARYNX; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033959643     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313581     Document Type: Article

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