Enterococci spp. isolated from Cuba: Species frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility profile

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-67

  Quiñones, Dianelys ^a   Goñi, Pilar ^b   Rubio, M Carmen ^c   Duran, Estrella ^c   Gómez Lus, Rafael ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b Facultad de Medicina   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Antimicrobial susceptibility profile; Cuba; Enterococci

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; DIFFUSION; DILUTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS HIRAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 11144339320     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.08.018     Document Type: Article

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