Current status of antimicrobial susceptibility of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan: Report of a countrywide surveillance study

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-51

  Hotomi, Muneki ^a   Billal, Dewan S ^a   Shimada, Jun ^a   Yamauchi, Kazuma ^a   Fujihara, Keiji ^a   Yamanaka, Noboru ^a,b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Soc Infect Dis Otolaryngol   (Japan)

Author keywords

Macrolides; PCR; Streptococcus pyogenes; Susceptibility; lactams

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFCAPENE; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; FROPENEM; GATIFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PANIPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; ROXITHROMYCIN; SULBACTAM; TELITHROMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 15044343327     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-004-0360-0     Document Type: Article

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