Susceptibilities to telithromycin and six other agents and prevalence of macrolide resistance due to L4 ribosomal protein mutation among 992 pneumococci from 10 Central and Eastern European countries

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 371-377

  Nagai, Kensuke ^a   Appelbaum, Peter C ^a   Davies, Todd A ^a   Kelly, Linda M ^a   Hoellman, Dianne B ^a   Andrasevic, Arjana Tambic ^a   Drukalska, Liga ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a   Jacobs, Michael R ^a   Kolman, Jana ^a   Miciuleviciene, Jolanta ^a   Pana, Marina ^a   Setchanova, Lena ^a   Thege, Marianne Konkoly ^a   Hupkova, Helena ^a   Trupl, Jan ^a   Urbaskova, Pavla ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TELITHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BULGARIA; CROATIA; EUROPE; GENE MUTATION; HUNGARY; LATVIA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SLOVAKIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; KETOLIDES; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OFLOXACIN; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036146498     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.2.371-377.2002     Document Type: Article

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