IMP-4, a novel metallo-β-lactamase from nosocomial Acinetobacter spp. Collected in Hong Kong between 1994 and 1998

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 710-714

  Chu, Y W ^a   Afzal Shah, M ^a   Houang, E T S ^a   Palepou, M F I ^a   Lyon, D J ^a   Woodford, N ^a   Livermore, D M ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFALORIDINE; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; IMIPENEM; IMP 4; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROCEFIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; SULBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; HONG KONG; HYDROLYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0035118069     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.3.710-714.2001     Document Type: Article

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