Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolate highly resistant to fluoroquinolones in a child [3]

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1195-1196

  Huang, Te Din ^a   Avrain, Laetitia ^a   De Bilderling, Georges ^b   Glupczynski, Youri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RESERPINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 33845439336     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000243766.85379.d6     Document Type: Letter

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