Nosocomial spread of cephem-resistant Escherichia coli strains carrying multiple Toho-1-like β-lactamase genes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2606-2611

  Yagi, Tetsuya ^a,b   Kurokawa, Hiroshi ^c   Senda, Kazuyoshi ^a   Ichiyama, Satoshi ^b   Ito, Hideo ^a   Ohsuka, Shinji ^a   Shibayama, Keigo ^a   Shimokata, Kaoru ^b   Kato, Nobuo ^a   Ohta, Michio ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Health Sciences Research Institute   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFALORIDINE; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHAMYCIN; CEPHEM DERIVATIVE; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; LATAMOXEF; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; SULPERAZON; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; THROAT CULTURE;

EID: 0030834005     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.12.2606     Document Type: Article

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