Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of rapidly growing mycobacteria

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 76-78

  Gayathri, R ^a   Lily Therese, K ^a   Deepa, P ^a   Mangai, S ^a   Madhavan, H N ^a  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Amikacin; antibiogram; rapid growers of mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GATIFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISK DIFFUSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RAPIDLY GROWING MYCOBACTERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77954973769     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.65278     Document Type: Article

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