Implications of Streptococcus pneumoniae penicillin resistance and serotype distribution in Kuwait for disease treatment and prevention

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-207

  Mokaddas, Eiman M ^a   Rotimi, Vincent O ^a   Albert, M John ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 40449106129     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00277-07     Document Type: Article

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