Complex genetic structures with repeated elements, a sul-type class 1 integron, and the blaVEB extended-spectrum β-lactamase gene

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1745-1752

  Naas, Thierry ^a   Aubert, Daniel ^a   Lambert, Thierry ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Centre Pharmaceutique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTAXIME PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTAZIDIME PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NETILMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APH A GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; BLA AMPC GENE; BLA VEB 1 GENE; BLA VEB 1A GENE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FRANCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTEGRON; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 33646458508     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.5.1745-1752.2006     Document Type: Article

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