Prolonged impact of a one-week course of clindamycin on Enterococcus spp. in human normal microbiota

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-219

  Lindgren, Marianne ^a   Löfmark, Sonja ^b   Edlund, Charlotta ^b   Huovinen, Pentti ^a   Jalava, Jari ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PROTEIN ERM B; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 61349156266     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802651897     Document Type: Article

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