Characteristics of Enterococcus strains isolated from neutropenic patients at National bone-marrow transplantation Center of Tunis;Caractéristiques des souches d'entérocoques isolées chez des patients neutropéniques au centre national de greffe de moelle osseuse de Tunis

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-94

  Abbassi, M S ^a   Achour, W ^a   Ben Hassen, A ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Amoxicillin; Bone marrow; Enterococcus faecium; Enterococcus spp.; Gentamicin; Neutropenia; Northern Africa; Resistance; Transplantation; Tunis; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; BETA LACTAM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUTROPENIA; PHENOTYPE; PRESSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUNISIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEUTROPENIA; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING; TIME FACTORS; TUNISIA; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 3142547125     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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