Evaluation of mutations in penicillin binding protein-3 gene of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae isolated from the nasopharynx of children with acute otitis media

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 180-183

  Sakai, Akihiro ^a   Hotomi, Muneki ^a   Billal, Dewan S ^a   Yamauchi, Kazuma ^a   Shimada, Jun ^a   Tamura, Shinji ^a   Fujihara, Keiji ^a   Yamanaka, Noboru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Nasopharynx; Non lactamase producing ampicillin resistant Haemophilus influenzae; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFACLOR; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN PIVOXIL; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA GENE; CHILD; FEMALE; FTS1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NASOPHARYNX; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 14344264867     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480410020301     Document Type: Article

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