Resistance to methicillin and other antimicrobials among community-acquired and nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus strains in a pediatric teaching hospital in Salvador, Northeast Brazil

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-131

  Nascimento Carvalho, Cristiana M ^a,b   Lyra, Ticiana G ^a   Alves, Noraney N ^a   Caldas, Renilza M ^a   Barberino, Maria Goreth ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b University Hospital ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRAZIL; CHILD; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 50149089245     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2008.0790     Document Type: Article

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