Emergence of invasive erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains in Portugal: Contribution and phylogenetic relatedness of serotype 14

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1035-1039

  Dias, Ricardo ^a   Caniça, Manuela ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

International clones; Macrolide resistance; Multilocus sequence typing; Pneumococci; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MIDECAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPIRAMYCIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG USE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 12344292543     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh469     Document Type: Article

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