Epidemiological and molecular characteristics of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes collected between 2005 and 2008 from Chinese children

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue PART7, 2012, Pages 975-983

  Liang, Yunmei ^a,b   Liu, Xiaorong ^a   Chang, Hesheng ^a,c   Ji, Lili ^a   Huang, Guoying ^d   Fu, Zhou ^e   Zheng, Yuejie ^f   Wang, Libo ^d   Li, Chengrong ^f   Shen, Ying ^a   Yu, Sangjie ^a   Yao, Kaihu ^a   Ma, Lin ^a   Shen, Xuzhuang ^a   Yang, Yonghong ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHENZHEN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM; CEFRADINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE; SUPERANTIGEN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHINESE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCARLET FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHINA; CITIES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMPETIGO; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84862705052     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.042309-0     Document Type: Article

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