In vitro susceptibilities of aerobic and facultative non-spore-forming gram-positive bacilli to HMR 3647 (RU 66647) and 14 other antimicrobials

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1028-1033

  Soriano, Francisco ^a   Fernández Roblas, Ricardo ^a   Calvo, Raquel ^a   García Calvo, Gloria ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; JOSAMYCIN; KETOLIDE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINCOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; QUINUPRISTIN; RIFAPENTINE; ROXITHROMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TELITHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0344157875     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.5.1028     Document Type: Article

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