Antimicrobial susceptibility of non-enterococcal intrinsic glycopeptide-resistant Gram-positive organisms

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-188

  Vay, Carlos ^a   Cittadini, Roxana ^a   Barberis, Claudia ^a   Hernán Rodríguez, Carlos ^a   Perez Martínez, Herminia ^a   Genero, Fabiana ^a   Famiglietti, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Lactobacillus; Leuconostoc; Pediococcus

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG ACTIVITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LEUCONOSTOC; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; LEUKONOSTOC LACTIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PEDIOCOCCUS; PEDIOCOCCUS ACIDILACTICI; PEDIOCOCCUS PENTOSACEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEISSELLA CONFUSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33846380638     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.08.014     Document Type: Article

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