Distribution of epidemic antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal clones in Scottish pneumococcal isolates analysed by multilocus sequence typing

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 361-365

  Smith, A J ^a   Jefferies, J ^b   Clarke, S C ^b,c,e   Dowson, C ^d   Edwards, G F S ^c   Mitchell, T J ^b  

^a GLASGOW DENTAL HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c STOBHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e Portsmouth City PCT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SCOTLAND; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 32244444657     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28419-0     Document Type: Article

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