Sensitivity pattern among bacterial isolates in neonatal septicaemia in port Harcourt

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  West, Boma A ^a   Peterside, Oliemen ^b  

^a Rivers State University Rivers State University Teaching Hospital   (Nigeria)

^b Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacteria; Neonatal sepsis; Port harcourt

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPARFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; KIRBY BAUER DIFFUSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NIGERIA; SEPSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NIGERIA; SEPSIS;

EID: 84858736527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-11-7     Document Type: Article

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