Multifocal outbreaks of metallo-β-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistant to broad-spectrum β-lactams, including carbapenems

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 349-353

  Senda, Kazuyoshi ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^a   Nakashima, Kazumitsu ^a   Ito, Hideo ^a   Ichiyama, Satoshi ^a   Shimokata, Kaoru ^a   Kato, Nobuo ^a   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALORIDINE; CEFMENOXIME; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFSULODIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LATAMOXEF; MEROPENEM; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PANIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; SULPERAZON; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030071472     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.2.349     Document Type: Article

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