Relationship between the original multiply resistant South African isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from 1977 to 1978 and contemporary international resistant clones

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6035-6041

  Reinert, Ralf René ^a   Jacobs, Michael R ^b   Appelbaum, Peter C ^c   Bajaksouzian, Saralee ^b   Cordeiro, Soraia ^b   Van Der Linden, Mark ^a   Al Lahham, Adnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; FOUNDER EFFECT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 30744445469     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6035-6041.2005     Document Type: Article

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