Isolation, identification, and antibiogram of enterococci isolated from patients with urinary tract infection

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 176-181

  Parameswarappa, Jyothi ^a   Basavaraj, V ^a   Basavaraj, C ^a  

^a BLDE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Enterococci; high level aminoglycoside resistance; urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HIGH LEVEL AMINOGLYCOSIDE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884575062     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.117629     Document Type: Article

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