Drug resistant patterns of enterococci recovered from patients in Tehran during 2000-2003 [3]

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 521-522

  Feizabadi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Asadi, Sorour ^b   Aliahmadi, Atoosa ^a   Parvin, Mahmoud ^b   Parastan, Razieh ^a   Shayegh, Maryam ^a   Etemadi, Gelavizh ^c  

^a ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Labafi Nejad Hospital   (Iran)

^c Chamran Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 7044226447     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2004.08.004     Document Type: Letter

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