Linezolid-resistant staphylococcus epidermidis, Portugal, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 903-905

  Barros, Mariana ^a   Branquinho, Raquel ^a   Grosso, Filipa ^a   Peixe, Luísa ^a   Novais, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; RNA 23S; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE;

AGAR DILUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOFILM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VERY ELDERLY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION; OXAZOLIDINONES; PORTUGAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84898837460     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2005.130783     Document Type: Letter

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