Stability of penicillin-susceptible and nonsusceptible clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae in southern Sweden

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 108-113

  Vilhelmsson, Sigurdur E ^a,b   Kristinsson, Karl G ^a  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLONAL VARIATION; CLONE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISK DIFFUSION ANTIMICROBIAL TESTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34547578899     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2007.694     Document Type: Article

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