Emergence of carbapenem-hydrolysing metallo-β-lactamase VIM-1 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in France [1]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 941-942

  Corvec, S ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^a   Decousser, J W ^a   Allouch, P Y ^a   Drugeon, H ^a   Nordmann, P ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NEOMYCIN; TICARCILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRANCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33746640968     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.1532_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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