Antibiotic sensitivity of 40 Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolates and molecular analysis of macrolide-resistant isolates from Beijing, China

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1108-1109

  Zhao, Fei ^a,e   Lv, Min ^b   Tao, Xiaoxia ^a,e   Huang, Hui ^c   Zhang, Binghua ^a,e   Zhang, Zhen ^d   Zhang, Jianzhong ^a,e  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Beijing Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

^c Institute for Infectious Diseases   (China)

^d Institute for Infectious Disease and Endemic Disease Control   (China)

^e State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; JOSAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

EID: 84862907891     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05627-11     Document Type: Article

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