Genetic relatedness of resistant and multiresistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains, recovered in the Athens area, to international clones

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-226

  Tsolia, Maria N ^a   Stamos, George ^b   Ioannidou, Sophia ^b   Trefler, Ronit ^c   Foustoukou, Maria ^b   Kafetzis, Dimitris ^a   Porat, Nurith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GREECE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036739971     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107662902760326940     Document Type: Article

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