Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of clinical isolates of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-4

  Perwaiz, Samia ^a   Barakzi, Qamaruddin ^a   Farooqi, Badar Jehan ^a   Khursheed, Nazia ^a   Sabir, Nasim ^a  

^a ZIAUDDIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; CEFALEXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG RESEARCH; IN VITRO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PAKISTAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33947598526     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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