Hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM-1, a novel transferable metallo-β-lactamase

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1119-1125

  Cornaglia, Giuseppe ^a   Mazzariol, Annarita ^a   Lauretti, Laura ^b   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^b   Fontana, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; EDETIC ACID; IMIPENEM; PROTEIN VIM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; METALLOPROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034458398     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317448     Document Type: Article

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