Nontypeable Streptococcus pneumoniae as an otopathogen

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 200-204

  Xu, Qingfu ^a   Kaur, Ravinder ^a   Casey, Janet R ^b   Sabharwal, Vishakha ^c   Pelton, Stephen ^c   Pichichero, Michael E ^a  

^a ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Legacy Pediatrics   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Multilocus sequence typing; Nontypeable Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; FROPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOLYSIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE MODEL; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYRINGOTOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINCHILLA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OTITIS MEDIA; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS;

EID: 78651439526     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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