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The antimicrobial resistance patterns and associated determinants in Streptococcus suisisolated from humans in southern Vietnam, 1997-2008
6 Jan 2011
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BACKGROUND: Streptococcus suis is an emerging zoonotic pathogen and is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in adults in Vietnam. Systematic data on the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of S. suis strains isolated from human cases are lacking. We studied antimicrobial resistance and associated resistance determinants in S. suis isolated from patients with meningitis in southern Vietnam. METHODS: S. suis...
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