Oropharyngeal carriage of macrolide-resistant viridans group streptococci: A prevalence study among healthy adults in Belgium

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-276

  Malhotra Kumar, Surbhi ^a   Lammens, Christine ^a   Martel, An ^b   Mallentjer, Cecile ^a   Chapelle, Sabine ^a   Verhoeven, Jeanine ^a   Wijdooghe, Monique ^a   Haesebrouck, Freddy ^b   Goossens, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Commensals; Oral flora; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OROPHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BELGIUM; CARRIER STATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; OROPHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRIDANS STREPTOCOCCI;

EID: 1242285170     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh026     Document Type: Article

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