Cefotaxime-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates from a hospital in Warsaw, Poland: Identification of a new CTX-M-3 cefotaxime-hydrolyzing β- lactamase that is closely related to the CTX-M-1/MEN-1 enzyme

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 827-832

  Gniadkowski, Marek ^a   Schneider, Ines ^c   Pałucha, Andrzej ^a   Jungwirth, Renate ^c   Mikiewicz, Barbara ^b   Bauernfeind, Adolf ^c  

^a Sera & Vaccines Central Research Laboratory Warszawa   (Poland)

^b Hlth Care Ctr Praga Po noc   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; PLASMID DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0031979177     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.4.827     Document Type: Article

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