Article
Resistance issues and treatment implications: pneumococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, and gram-negative rods.
Infectious disease clinics of North America - 1 Sept 1998
Low D E
Abstract excerpt
During the last decade there has been an unexpectedly rapid evolution of antimicrobial resistance in the respiratory pathogens for community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia. In order to choose the most optimal therapy for their patients, it is essential that physicians be aware of the prevalence...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- DNA Topoisomerases, Type II
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Genes, Bacterial
- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
- Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods
- Humans
- Lincosamides
- Macrolides
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Mutation
- Pneumonia, Bacterial
- Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
- Pneumonia, Staphylococcal
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Virginiamycin