Macrolide Resistance Determinants of Invasive and Noninvasive Group B Streptococci in a Turkish Hospital

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1410-1412

  Acikgoz, Ziya Cibali ^a,c   Almayanlar, Ebru ^b   Gamberzade, Sohret ^a   Gocer, Safiye ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Turkey)

^b Metis Biotechnology Ltd   (Turkey)

^c FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RECTUM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TURKEY; VAGINA;

EID: 1642461328     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.4.1410-1412.2004     Document Type: Article

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