Clonal relatedness and conserved integron structures in epidemiologically unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains producing the VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase from different Italian hospitals

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 104-110

  Riccio, Maria Letizia ^a   Pallecchi, Lucia ^a   Docquier, Jean Denis ^a,f   Cresti, Stefania ^a   Catania, Maria Rosaria ^b   Pagani, Laura ^c   Lagatolla, Cristina ^d   Cornaglia, Giuseppe ^e   Fontana, Roberta ^e   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBENICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POLYMYXIN B; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIM 1 METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTEGRON; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ITALY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEROTYPE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; ITALY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 19944427459     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.1.104-110.2005     Document Type: Article

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