Occurrence of a new metallo-β-lactamase IMP-4 carried on a conjugative plasmid in Citrobacter youngae from the People's Republic of China

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-57

  Hawkey, Peter M ^a   Xiong, Jianhui ^a,b   Ye, Huifen ^b   Li, Hongyu ^c   M'Zali, Fatima H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GUANGZHOU FIRST PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Second Affiliated Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Carbapenemase; Citrobacter youngae; IMP 4; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENE PRODUCT; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROTEIN BLAIMP4; SULPERAZON; TIMENTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHINA; CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER YOUNGAE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHINA; CITROBACTER; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 0035170847     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00506-1     Document Type: Article

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