Prevalence of Penicillin-Nonsusceptible Pneumococcal Bacteremia in a Staten Island Community Hospital

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1078-1080

  Perrone, Calogera ^a   Perrone, Paolo ^a   Kopetz, Virginia ^a   Nedunchezian, Deeptha ^a   Leggiadro, Robert ^a  

^a Sisters of Charity Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034321788     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200093110-00007     Document Type: Article

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