Wide dissemination of a carbapenemase plasmid among gram-negative bacteria: Implications of the variable phenotype [3]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4918-4919

  Espedido, Björn ^a   Iredell, Jonathan ^a   Thomas, Lee ^a   Zelynski, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALOTIN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLAVULANIC ACID; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 24744460739     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.9.4918-4919.2005     Document Type: Letter

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