Antimicrobial resistance patterns of respiratory pathogens: A local report from Turkey [4]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1257-1258

  Zarakolu, Pinar ^a   Soyletir, Guner ^b   Gur, Deniz ^c   Unal, Serhat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Ihsan Dogramaci Children's Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; SULTAMICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG LAVAGE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0347600362     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2003.00780.x     Document Type: Letter

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