Antimicrobial resistance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in a British district general hospital: The international connection

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1241-1246

  Birtles, Andrew ^a,d   Virgincar, Nilangi ^b,e   Sheppard, Carmen L ^a   Walker, Rachel A ^a,f   Johnson, Alan P ^a,g   Warner, Marina ^a   Edwards Jones, Valerie ^c   George, Robert C ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Reading Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^e HPA Southwest Regional Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^f Wells Healthcare Communications Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^g HPA Communic Dis Survlnc Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 11144225962     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45763-0     Document Type: Article

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