Distribution of emm type and antibiotic susceptibility of group A streptococci causing invasive and noninvasive disease

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1383-1388

  Wajima, Takeaki ^a   Murayama, Somay Y ^a   Sunaoshi, Katsuhiko ^a   Nakayama, Eiichi ^a   Sunakawa, Keisuke ^a   Ubukata, Kimiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFCAPENE; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FROPENEM; JOSAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; PANIPENEM; TEBIPENEM; TELITHROMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELLULITIS; CHILD; EMM1 GENE; EMM11 GENE; EMM12 GENE; EMM28 GENE; EMM3 GENE; EMM4 GENE; EMM49 GENE; EMM58 GENE; EMM6 GENE; EMM75 GENE; EMM87 GENE; EMM89 GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONSILLITIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OFLOXACIN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 55549133950     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/002642-0     Document Type: Article

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