Isolation of Members of the Staphylococcus sciuri Group from Urine and Their Relationship to Urinary Tract Infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 5262-5264

  Stepanović, Srdjan ^a   Ježek, Petr ^b   Vuković, Dragana ^a   Dakić, Ivana ^a   Petráš, Petr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Regional Hospital P íbram   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIURIA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LENTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VITULINUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LENTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VITULINUS;

EID: 10744226020     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.5262-5264.2003     Document Type: Article

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