Characteristics of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae isolated from purulent sputum samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 923-927

  Keith, Elaine R ^a   Podmore, Roslyn G ^a   Anderson, Trevor P ^a   Murdoch, David R ^a,b  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; ROXITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOPNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33644882529     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.923-927.2006     Document Type: Article

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