Plasmid-mediated high-level ceftriaxone resistance in a Salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium isolate

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-148

  Dimitrov, T S ^a,d   Udo, E E ^b   Verghese, T ^b   Emara, M ^c   Al Saleh, Alla ^c  

^a Infectious Diseases Hospital Kuwait   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^d IDH Lab Department   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Extended spectrum beta lactamase; Gastroenteritis; Multidrug resistance; Salmonella typhimurium

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PLASMID DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; DNA ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; KUWAIT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; KUWAIT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 32944477946     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090920     Document Type: Article

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