Criteria of time and antibiotic susceptibility in the elimination of duplicates when calculating resistance frequencies

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-134

  Rodríguez, Juan Carlos ^a   Sirvent, Elia ^a   López Lozano, José ^b   Royo, Gloria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL VEGA BAJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; OXACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME;

EID: 0037587230     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkg298     Document Type: Article

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