Nasopharyngeal carriage, antimicrobial susceptibility, serotype distribution and clonal relatedness of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in healthy children in Malatya, Turkey

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-246

  Bayraktar, Mehmet Refik ^a   Durmaz, Bengul ^a   Kalcioglu, Mahmut Tayyar ^a   Durmaz, Riza ^a   Cizmeci, Zeynep ^a   Aktas, Elif ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colonisation rate; Drug resistance; Genotyping; Serogrouping; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TURKEY;

EID: 24044501884     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2005.06.014     Document Type: Article

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