Coryneform bacteria: Their clinical significance and resistance patterns during a three-year study;Corinebatteri e corineformi: Ruolo eziologico in pazienti ospedalizzati e fenotipi di resistenza nel corso di 3 anni di osservazione

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-131

  Ubaldi, Manuela ^a   D'Annibale, Maria Letizia ^b   Medori, Maria Chiara ^b   Crotti, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Coryneform bacteria; Nosocomial infections

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MINOCYCLINE; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES NEUII; ACTINOMYCETALES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM AMYCOLATUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ITALY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 3242730334     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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