Spread of an unusual penicillin- and imipenem-resistant but ampicillin-susceptible phenotype among Enterococcus faecalis clinical isolates [7]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 158-160

  Metzidie, Evgenia ^a   Manolis, Evangelos N ^b   Pournaras, Spyros ^c   Sofianou, Danai ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^b  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ampicillin; Enterococci; Etest; Imipenem; Penicillin; Resistance

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGAR MEDIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; DILUTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GREECE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS;

EID: 30344460016     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dki427     Document Type: Letter

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