Integron content of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli strains over 12 years in a single hospital in Madrid, Spain

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1823-1829

  Machado, Elisabete ^a,b   Cantón, Rafael ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a   Galán, Juan Carlos ^a   Rollán, Azucena ^a   Peixe, Luísa ^b   Coque, Teresa M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPAIN;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN;

EID: 18244372932     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.5.1823-1829.2005     Document Type: Article

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