Multiresistant clones of Acinetobacter baumannii in the Czech republic;Multirezistentní klony Acinetobacter baumannii v České republice

Klinicka Mikrobiologie a Infekcni Lekarstvi

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 130-137

  Nemec, Alexandr ^a   Van Der Reijden, T J K ^b   Dijkshoorn, L ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIFFUSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; RIBOTYPING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0038420745     PISSN: 1211264X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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