Nasal carriage in Vietnamese children of Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant to multiple antimicrobial agents

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 484-488

  Parry, Christopher M ^a,b,c   Diep, To Song ^a   Wain, John ^a,b   Hoa, Nguyen Thi Tuyet ^a   Gainsborough, Mary ^a,b   Nga, Diem ^a   Davies, Catrin ^b   Phu, Nguyen Hoan ^a   Hien, Tran Tinh ^a   White, Nicholas J ^a,b   Farrar, Jeremy J ^a,b  

^a CHO QUAN HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Tropical Diseases Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASAL CAVITY; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0342470592     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.3.484-488.2000     Document Type: Article

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