Comparative in vitro activities of three new quinolones and azithromycin against aerobic pathogens causing respiratory tract and abdominal wound infections

Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-42

  Wenzler, Sibylle ^a   Schmidt Eisenlohr, Elke ^a   Daschner, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gatifloxacin; Moxifloxacin; Quinolone; Respiratory tract infection; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINES; QUINOLONES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1842840935     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077284     Document Type: Article

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