Antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates indicating possible nosocomial transmission routes in a community hospital in Japan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3701-3706

  Qin, Liang ^a,c   Masaki, Hironori ^b   Watanabe, Kiwao ^b   Furumoto, Akitsugu ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFDITOREN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 36348975241     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01138-07     Document Type: Article

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