Drug susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated in Tehran, Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 192-195

  Oskoui, Mahvash ^a   Feizabadi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Amirkhani, Aref ^a  

^a ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Pneumococcus; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DILUTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; IRAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SCREENING TEST; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0347526154     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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