High frequency of reduced susceptibility to penicillin in serogroup 29E meningococci [3]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 229-230

  Arreaza, L ^a   Vazquez J A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0034174704     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2000.00060-2.x     Document Type: Letter

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