Risk factors for nasopharyngeal carriage of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: Data from a nation-wide surveillance study in Greece

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Katsarolis, Ioannis ^a   Poulakou, Garyphallia ^a   Analitis, Antonios ^b   Matthaiopoulou, Irini ^a   Roilides, Emmanuel ^c   Antachopoulos, Charalampos ^c   Kafetzis, Dimitrios A ^d   Daikos, Georgios L ^e   Vorou, Regina ^a   Koubaniou, Christina ^f   Pneumatikos, Ioannis ^g   Samonis, Georgios ^h   Syriopoulou, Vasiliki ⁱ   Giamarellou, Helen ^a   Kanellakopoulou, Kyriaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^g DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

ⁱ AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFACLOR; CEFPROZIL; CEFUROXIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DAY CARE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE SMEAR; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TONSILLITIS; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASOPHARYNX; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68849121240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-120     Document Type: Article

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