Some Pneumococcal Serotypes Are More Frequently Associated with Relapses of Acute Exacerbations in COPD Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Domenech, Arnau ^a,b   Ardanuy, Carmen ^a,b   Pallares, Roman ^a,b   Grau, Immaculada ^a,b   Santos, Salud ^c   De la Campa, Adela G ^b,d,e   Liñares, Josefina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REINFECTION; RELAPSE; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RECURRENCE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84874887890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059027     Document Type: Article

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