Simultaneous Presence of blaTEM and blaSHV Genes on a Large Conjugative Plasmid Carried by Extended-Spectrum β -Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 327, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 118-122

  Araque, María ^a   Rivera, Ismar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

BlaTEM and blaSHV genes; Extended spectrum lactamase; Klebsiella pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM DERIVATIVE; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLAVULANIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SEPTICEMIA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; ALLELE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS;

ALLELES; BETA-LACTAMASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS;

EID: 1542343937     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200403000-00002     Document Type: Article

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