Clonal diversity and resistance mechanisms in tetracycline-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Poland

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1155-1163

  Izdebski, Radosław ^a   Sadowy, Ewa ^a   Fiett, Janusz ^a   Grzesiowski, Paweł ^a   Gniadkowski, Marek ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TETM GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; POLAND; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34247135762     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01384-06     Document Type: Article

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