Effect of Androgens and Glucocorticoids on Microbial Growth and Antimicrobial Susceptibility

Current Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 514-520

  Plotkin, Balbina J ^a   Roose, Robert J ^b   Erikson, Quenby ^a   Viselli, Susan M ^b  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTIZOXIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NORFLOXACIN; TESTOSTERONE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0344896638     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-003-4080-y     Document Type: Article

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