Decrease in the incidence of tetracycline resistance in strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the nineties

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 228-230

  Bodonaik, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; DRUG USE; GONORRHEA; INCIDENCE; JAMAICA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAMAICA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0142217372     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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