Plasmid-mediated carbapenem-hydrolyzing β-lactamase KPC in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from France [3]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4423-4424

  Naas, Thierry ^a   Nordmann, Patrice ^a   Vedel, Gérard ^b   Poyart, Claire ^b  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Université Paris V ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; AZTREONAM PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE KPC; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTAXIME PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLAVULANIC ACID PLUS IMIPENEM; CLAVULANIC ACID PLUS MEROPENEM; COLISTIN; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SODIUM AZIDE; TAZOBACTAM; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA KPC 2 GENE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KINETICS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 25844520534     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.10.4423-4424.2005     Document Type: Letter

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