Why have group a streptococci remained susceptible to penicillin? Report on a symposium

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1341-1345

  Horn, David L ^a   Zabriskie, John B ^b   Austrian, Robert ^b   Patrick Cleary, P ^b   Ferretti, Joseph J ^b   Fischetti, Vincent A ^b   Gotschlich, Emil ^b   Kaplan, Edward L ^b   McCarty, Maclyn ^b   Opal, Steven M ^b   Roberts, Richard B ^b   Tomasz, Alexander ^b   Wachtfogel, Yanina ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

EID: 17344362378     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516375     Document Type: Article

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