Increasing trend of resistance to penicillin, tetracycline, and fluoroquinolone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Pakistan (1992-2009)

Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jabeen, Kauser ^a   Nizamuddin, Summiya ^a   Irfan, Seema ^a   Khan, Erum ^a   Malik, Faisal ^a   Zafar, Afia ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTIZOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISK DIFFUSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAKISTAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREND STUDY;

EID: 81555220054     PISSN: 16879686     EISSN: 16879694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/960501     Document Type: Article

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