Flouroquinolone resistance among clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae belonging to international multiresistant clones

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 173-176

  McGee, Lesley ^a,d   Goldsmith, Colin E ^b   Klugman, Keith P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTI INFECTIVE AGENTS, FLUOROQUINOLONE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SPAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM; CELL CLONE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEROTYPING;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, FLUOROQUINOLONE; CLONE CELLS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMAN; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0036006690     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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