Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae by adults and children in community and family settings

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 632-639

  Regev Yochay, Gili ^a,b   Raz, Meir ^c   Dagan, Ron ^d,e   Porat, Nurith ^d,e   Shainberg, Bracha ^c   Pinco, Erica ^c   Keller, Nathan ^a   Rubinstein, Ethan ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMAZINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DAY CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPING; SIBLING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 1442327300     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381547     Document Type: Article

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