Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in healthy children in Kanazawa, Japan

Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Tokyo

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 540-546

  Ito, Makoto ^a   Shirai, Akiko ^a   Sakunaka, Kaori ^a   Tsukatani, Toshiaki ^a   Furukawa, Mitsuru ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

nursery school; penicillin resistant Streptococccus pneumoniae (PRSP); recurrent acute otitis media

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749149645     PISSN: 03869687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11453/orltokyo1958.43.540     Document Type: Article

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