Molecular epidemiology of selected multidrug-resistant bacteria: A global report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 231-236

  Deshpande, Lalitagauri M ^a   Fritsche, Thomas R ^a   Jones, Ronald N ^a,b  

^a JMI LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular typing; Resistance; SENTRY

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIFAMOLE; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINUPRISTIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EUROPE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RIBOTYPING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 4143140875     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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