Transcontinental importation into the UK of Escherichia coli expressing a plasmid-mediated AmpC-type β-lactamase exposed during an outbreak of SHV-5 extended-spectrum β-lactamase in a Leeds hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 823-831

  M'Zali, Fatima Hannachi ^a   Heritage, John ^a   Gascoyne Binzi, Deborah M ^a   Denton, Miles ^b   Todd, Neil J ^b   Hawkey, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; MONOBACTAM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0031453195     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/40.6.823     Document Type: Article

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