Antibiotic resistance and molecular analysis of streptococcus pyogenes isolated from healthy school children in China

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-89

  Chang, Hesheng ^a   Shen, Xuzhuang ^a   Fu, Zhou ^b   Liu, Lan ^b   Shen, Ying ^a   Liu, Xiaorong ^a   Yu, Sangjie ^a   Yao, Kaihu ^a   Zhao, Chengsong ^a   Yang, Yonghong ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFRADINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THROAT CULTURE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 75749132762     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903321598     Document Type: Article

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