Screening fecal enterococci from Greek healthy infants for susceptibility to antimicrobial agents

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 578-585

  Kirtzalidou, Ekaterini I ^a   Mitsou, Evdokia K ^a   Pramateftaki, Paraskevi ^b   Kyriacou, Adamantini ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEONATAL SCREENING;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 84869423584     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2012.0028     Document Type: Article

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