Clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae that exhibit tolerance of vancomycin

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 552-558

  Normark, Birgitta Henriques ^a   Novak, Rodger ^b   Örtqvist, Åke ^c   Källenius, Gunilla ^a   Tuomanen, Elaine ^c   Normark, Staffan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c St Jude Children's Research Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; DRUG TOLERANCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONITORING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DRUG TOLERANCE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PENICILLINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROTEIN KINASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035864497     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318697     Document Type: Article

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