Comparative antipneumococcal activities of sulopenem and other drugs

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2239-2247

  Kosowska Shick, Klaudia ^a   Ednie, Lois M ^a   McGhee, Pamela ^a   Appelbaum, Peter C ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PF 03709270; PRODRUG; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULOPENEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MURM GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; LACTAMS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67049088310     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01531-08     Document Type: Article

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