Breakthrough in penicillin resistance? Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with penicillin/cefotaxime MICs of 16 mg/L and their genotypic and geographical relatedness | Zendy

Francisco García Soriano | Zendy; Fabio Cafini | Zendy; L. Aguilar | Zendy; David Tarragó | Zendy; Luís Alou | Zendy; María-José Giménez | Zendy; Matilde Gracia | Zendy; Maria Gabriela Linhares Ponte | Zendy; David H. Leu | Zendy; Marina Pană | Zendy; I. Letowska | Zendy; Asunción Fenoll | Zendy

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Breakthrough in penicillin resistance? Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with penicillin/cefotaxime MICs of 16 mg/L and their genotypic and geographical relatedness

Author(s) -

Francisco García Soriano,

Fabio Cafini,

L. Aguilar,

David Tarragó,

Luís Alou,

María-José Giménez,

Matilde Gracia,

Maria Gabriela Linhares Ponte,

David H. Leu,

Marina Pană,

I. Letowska,

Asunción Fenoll

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkn392

Subject(s) - cefotaxime , microbiology and biotechnology , cefpodoxime , multilocus sequence typing , biology , imipenem , penicillin , broth microdilution , agar dilution , genotype , minimum inhibitory concentration , antibiotic resistance , antibiotics , genetics , gene

To phenotypically and genotypically characterize 11 strains (isolated in four different centres) exhibiting penicillin MIC of 8-32 mg/L among isolates of the SPICE project. Nine isolates were from Romania (9/162; 5.56%) and two from Poland (2/305; 0.66%).

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