Class 1 Integron Containing Metallo-β-Lactamase Gene bla VIM-2 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clinical Strains Isolated in Japan

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 626-628

  Yatsuyanagi, Jun ^a   Saito, Shioko ^a   Harata, Seizaburo ^a   Suzuki, Noriyuki ^a   Ito, Yuko ^b   Amano, Ken Ichi ^c   Enomoto, Katsuhiko ^c  

^a AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Akita Kumiai General Hospital   (Japan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE BLA(VIM 2); BETA-LACTAMASE BLA(VIM-2); CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFTAZIDIME; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; ORF1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLA VIM 2 GENE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTEGRON; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BETA-LACTAMASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0942301296     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.2.626-628.2004     Document Type: Article

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