Rapid detection and evaluation of clinical characteristics of emerging multiple-drug-resistant gram-negative rods carrying the metallo-β-lactamase gene bla(IMP)

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2006-2011

  Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki ^a   Takemura, Hiromu ^a,b   Tanaka, Hironori ^a   Yoshida, Ryoji ^a   Matsuda, Junichi ^a   Nakano, Michiko ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Maesaki, Shigefumi ^a   Kaku, Mitsuo ^a,b   Yamada, Yasuaki ^a   Kamihira, Shimeru ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0031926752     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.8.2006     Document Type: Article

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