Antimicrobial susceptibilities and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from a low socioeconomic area in Lima, Peru

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1328-1331

  Cullotta, Anna R ^a   Kalter, H D ^a   Delgado, Jose ^a   Gilman, Robert H ^a   Facklam, Richard R ^a   Velapatino, Billie ^a   Coronel, Jorge ^a   Cabrera, Lilia ^a   Urbina, M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PATIENT EDUCATION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PERU; PLEURA FLUID; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VACCINATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASOPHARYNX; SEROTYPING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036844145     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.6.1328-1331.2002     Document Type: Article

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