Erythromycin resistance caused by erm(A) subclass erm(TR) in a Danish invasive pneumococcal isolate: Are erm(A) pneumococcal isolates overlooked?

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 584-587

  Lambertsen, Lotte ^a   Ekelund, Kim ^a   Hansen, Dennis S ^b   Kaltoft, Margit ^a   Christensen, Jens J ^a   Hammerum, Anette M ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN ERM(A); PROTEIN ERM(TR); TEICOPLANIN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DENMARK; DRUG RESPONSE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 47349124281     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701854717     Document Type: Article

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