From ecological reservoir to disease: The nasopharynx, day-care centres and drug-resistant clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2002, Pages 75-81

  de Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,b   Tomasz, Alexander ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL WALL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DAY CARE; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL DISEASES; NASOPHARYNX; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036980198     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkf511     Document Type: Review

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