Genotypic and phenotypic characterisation of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Hungary, and coverage of the conjugate vaccines

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1116-1120

  Dobay, Orsolya ^a   Ungvári, Ágnes ^a   Kardos, Szilvia ^a,b   Kristóf, Katalin ^a,b   Hajdú, Edit ^c   Szabó, Judit ^d   Knausz, Márta ^e   Nagy, Erzsébet ^c   Rozgonyi, Ferenc ^a,b   Amyes, Sebastian G B ^f   Nagy, Károly ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e Aladar Petz County Teaching Hospital   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; SYNFLORIX; TELITHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINES, CONJUGATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649631571     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.079780     Document Type: Article

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