A novel, multiple drug-resistant, serotype 24F strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae that caused meningitis in patients in Naples, Italy

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-208

  Pantosti, Annalisa ^a   Gherardi, Giovanni ^b   Conte, Marco ^c   Faella, Francesco ^d   Dicuonzo, Giordano ^b   Beall, Bernard ^e  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c Laboratorio Analisi Chimico Cliniche e Microbiologiche   (Italy)

^d AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLONAL VARIATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; VACCINATION;

AGED; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037100543     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341250     Document Type: Article

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