Novel metallo β-lactamase mediated by a Shigella flexneri plasmid

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-206

  O'Hara, Koji ^a   Haruta, Shin ^a   Sawai, Tetsuo ^a   Tsunoda, Mitsuko ^b   Iyobe, Shizuko ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbapenem resistance; Metallo B lactamase; Shigella flexneri

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALORIDINE; CEFALOTIN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORINASE; IMIPENEM; METALLOPROTEIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0032525162     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00121-9     Document Type: Article

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