Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of nasopharyngeal flora in children attending a day care center

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 625-629

  Yano, Hisakazu ^a,b   Suetake, Mitsuko ^c   Kuga, Akio ^a   Irinoda, Kazuhiko ^a   Okamoto, Ryoichi ^a   Kobayashi, Toshimitsu ^b   Inoue, Matsuhisa ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFACLOR; CEFDITOREN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFPODOXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY CARE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE INFECTION; NOSE SECRETION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINORRHEA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033967883     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.2.625-629.2000     Document Type: Article

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