Article
Identification of multiple clones of extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in the United States.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Oct 1995
McDougal L K, Rasheed J K, Biddle J W, Tenover F C
Abstract excerpt
We characterized 12 isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae with various levels of susceptibility of penicillin and extended-spectrum cephalosporins by antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, serotypes, ribotypes, chromosomal DNA restriction patterns by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus en...
Topics
- Aminoacyltransferases
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Carrier Proteins
- Cephalosporins
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Hexosyltransferases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muramoylpentapeptide Carboxypeptidase
- Penicillin-Binding Proteins
- Peptidyl Transferases
- Phenotype
- Streptococcus pneumoniae