Escherichia coli with a self-transferable, multiresistant plasmid coding for metallo-β-lactamase VIM-1

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 395-397

  Miriagou, Vivi ^c   Tzelepi, Eva ^d   Gianneli, Dimitra ^b   Tzouvelekis, Leonidas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROTEIN VIM 1; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 12244297814     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.1.395-397.2003     Document Type: Article

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