Class 1 Integrons Increase Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole MICs against Epidemiologically Unrelated Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 666-669

  Barbolla, Raquel ^a   Catalano, Mariana ^a   Orman, Betina E ^a   Famiglietti, Angela ^b   Vay, Carlos ^b   Smayevsky, Jorgelina ^c   Centrón, Daniela ^a   Piñeiro, Silvia A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^c CEMIC   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; SULBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

CROSS INFECTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0942279620     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.2.666-669.2004     Document Type: Article

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