Antimicrobial drug resistance in Corynebacterium diphtheriae mitis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2078-2080

  Barraud, Olivier ^a,b   Badell, Edgar ^c   Denis, François ^a,b   Guiso, Nicole ^c   Ploy, Marie Cécile ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA EXTRACTION; FRANCE; INTEGRON; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84930482640     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1711.110282     Document Type: Letter

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